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This movie holds a lesson, however, for it demonstrates that fully rounded characterizations, equipped with all the perversities of real life, will not automatically lead to a great work of art. The hero and heroine of Roofs are not like the cardboard creatures of American comedies, or the fantastical inventions of the British. This is a testament to the laudably acute eye of director Rene Clair, but it does not make their adventures universally entertaining...
...from ready to return to his academic ivory tower. No sooner was he fired than he consulted with two of his favorite newsmen, the Des Moines Register's Clark Mollenhoff and a Drew Pearson legman named Jack Anderson. Off marched Schwartz and Mollenhoff, with a suitcase and two cardboard boxes full of subcommittee documents, to the Mayflower Hotel suite of Delaware's investigations-minded Republican Senator John Williams. Williams recognized that the papers had, in effect, been pilfered from a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives, turned Schwartz and Mollenhoff back into the night...
...beach and tried to celebrate his arrival with the traditional Swedish long dance (they had to abandon it because of the sandy footing). At dinner the Indians (to whom Christmas is not a religious holiday) provided a group of bagpipers for entertainment. At Khan Yunis, the Colombians rigged up cardboard boxes that spouted artificial snow. Then Hammarskjold attended midnight Mass in an army tent, as buglers and drummers beside the altar played solemn rolls and flourishes at the elevation of the Host. In the morning, he went to services in the New England-style Lutheran chapel the Swedes had built...
...anesthetic, and the five-hour labor was entirely normal; so was the child, except that it was perhaps a month premature. Not normal: the mother's age. She was herself a child of nine years, seven months, 28 days. Only a few months ago she wore white cardboard wings and played an angel in the third-grade play at school...
...same stroke." Thus Paris Painter Pierre Soulages, at 37 a roaring commercial success and winner of several international art prizes, describes the effort behind his huge, bulking canvases-massive, broad strokes of dark paint laid on the light background with brush, board, strips of leather and cardboard to make a bold structural pattern that is now his signature and trademark...