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Sophia Loren is an actress of narrow range, but under skillful direction she is an actress of enormous depth. With an authority that beggars the cheap criticism that she is merely playing herself, she can put her hands on her hips, cock her head, turn bargaining eyes toward the camera and drench an audience in the sunshine and sadness, shrugs, shouts, laughter and song of southern Italy. She does so for De Sica in Two Women-hair blowing in her eyes, dressed sexlessly in threadbare clothes, pouting, cursing, writing chapters in the air with her hands. She plays a ferociously...
President Kennedy last week received unexpected support for the recent charge, made in his interview with Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, that Soviet efforts to communize the world are the chief threat to peace. Izvestia derided the President's statement as a "cock and bull story," but Red China's official newspaper, People's Daily, promptly set the record straight. The Communist bloc would never stop "supporting the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed nations and people," said People's Daily, and anyone who thinks otherwise is living "an idiot's daydream...
...brutal way, Khrushchev demonstrated a fact of international life: that the neutrals, though they fancy themselves the conscience of mankind, act generally out of naked self-interest. And their self-interest tells them that it is safer to cock a snoot at the U.S. than at Moscow...
...getting harder and harder to keep score on how many times Nikita Khrushchev had rattled his war rockets. One Kremlinologist got the count up to nearly 150 times in the past five years-and that was before last week's big flurry. Cock-a-hoop over his cosmonauts, a little miffed perhaps that the rest of the world was not giving him what he regarded as his due, and possibly feeling a little frustrated over the West's stubborn resistance on Berlin. Nikita Khrushchev was in a real rocket-banging tantrum...
...almost completely deaf: he perfected the phonograph in 1887 because his own faulty hearing made him fascinated by the science of sound. His invention so fascinated the public that in those early years audiences sat for whole evenings in stunned silence listening to the tinfoil phonograph crow like a cock, bark like a dog or babble in foreign tongues. Later, the German Pianist-Conductor Hans von Bulow was so moved by Edison's handiwork that when he heard a recording of himself playing a Chopin mazurka, he fainted dead away. In the early days Columbia slipped commercials in between...