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...Guest; Continental) is another British attempt to produce an American cinemusical. The hero is a young Sohobo (Laurence Harvey) who calls himself a talent agent because he books skiffle bands and strip acts into low resorts. One night in an espresso parlor he hears a teen-age rockney (Cliff Richard) who bangs bongo and makes noises like Elvis Presley. The agent rooks the dope into a fifty-fifty split of all his earnings, soon makes him a major platter personality, TV type and subject of sociological concern ("Drums," a psychiatrist declares, "may be his means of evacuating tension...
...Jersey. To oppose Case in next week's primary election , Old Guardists have put up a hard-campaigning right-winger: Robert Morris, 45, longtime lieutenant of the late Joe McCarthy, sometime (on and off between 1951 and 1958) counsel of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. As a result, Cliff Case, who was elected by a whisker in 1954, is in another close race...
Stumping & Pumping. Working the way he thinks a Senator should, conscientious Cliff Case has spent far more time answering roll calls in Washington than mending fences in New Jersey. Local GOPoliticos carp that he has lost touch with them, ignored them on federal patronage. Because he remained in Washington for the civil rights debate, Case has barely been able to campaign for the primary. One night last week, for example, Case flew into New York's La Guardia Airport at 8:50, sped off to a single political rally, hustled right back to catch an 11:30 plane...
...Death] and plays (The Dead City, The Ship}. His heroes were voluptuous and cruel. "Whv must there be a germ of sadist perversion in everyone who loves and desires?" the D'Annunzian hero asked himself as he pulled his beloved, and his beloved self, off a cliff, or in fake Renaissance fashion raped his sister...
...Modern displayed Monet's light-filled canvases in series devoted to a single theme-a haystack, a line of poplars, a cliff jutting into the sea, a cathedral. Guy de Maupassant described him at work: "No longer a painter, in truth, but a hunter. He proceeded, followed by children who carried his canvases, five or six canvases representing the same subject at different times of day and with different effects. He took them up and put them aside in turn, following the changes in the sky ... I have seen him thus seize a glittering shower of light...