Word: crackups
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...Shohei Ooka has written what critics in his native land think is their first well-written book about the war. The novel has sold 100,000 copies, and it is not hard to see why. In translation it has moments of obscurity, but it still conveys powerfully the gradual crackup of a war-shattered man who, in his last extremity, can relate himself neither to humanity...
...desert nation of 1,500,000 Bedouins and Palestine refugees, broke and adrift now that its imperial British creators have left. Last week, seeing his country beset from within and without, Jordan's young (21) King Hussein bravely grabbed power for himself to save his crumbling country from crackup...
...faded away into the thin air that produced her, but a weird new phenomenon is loose in the land; a teen-age craze for a boyish Hollywood actor named James Dean, who has been dead for eleven months. Barely a celebrity when he was killed in a sports-car crackup, Dean last week was haunting U.S. newsstands, which are plastered with four fast-selling magazines devoted wholly to him, e.g., Jimmy Dean Returns! ("Read his own words from the beyond!"). The actor is also a current "must" in every movie magazine, while three national magazines and two book publishers prepare...
...modern painting, who spread his canvases on the floor, dribbled paint, sand and broken glass on them, smeared and scratched them, named them with numbers, and became one of the art world's hottest sellers by 1949; at the wheel of his convertible in a side-road crackup near East Hampton...
Expensive Sabotage? Whatever hopes anyone might have had about Bette Davis on television film were headed for a crackup when she appeared in Crack-Up on the 20th Century-Fox Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). For two acts of a dreary version of a 1952 film by Writer Nunnally Johnson, Bette did not even appear, as the dialogue driveled on between drama ("We belong together; I know we do") and comedy ("It's raining cats and dogs; I just stepped in a poodle"). When she finally did appear as a bedridden sage spouting inspirational cliches, she was as stiff...