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...Force One touches down at the airport, the half a dozen or so agents aboard alight first and are met at the ramp by a platoon of their colleagues. (The size of a White House detail???always a closely kept secret?varies from occasion to occasion.) The President's limousine, driven by an agent, awaits him at the ramp. The chief of the detail rides next to the driver; the President, usually with an adviser or a local dignitary, sits in back. Directly behind the President's car is the "Queen Mary," an open car with running boards and hand...
Critics found in Mrs. McCormick's portraits?with one exception all painted in the impressionistic vein with broad brush strokes, small attention to detail??? bold, striking character studies. In her husband's picture which hung above the fireplace she had caught his quizzical domineering expression, the important frown he wears when "things in Washing- ton are going badly." She had not attempted to flatter Actress Katharine Cornell, wide of mouth, heavy of eyelid. There were two nudes because, Mrs. Mc-Cormick explained, "you can't have an exhibition without nudes." Amusing was what the artist called her "American Primitive...
...made from the play six years ago is that the producers have apparently tried to turn it out too cheaply. Another reason is that it is stupidly directed. Every bone of the play's framework?skeleton that should be smoothed and hidden away under the flesh of character and detail???is carefully stressed in the important scenes in which Anna and her father and her lover are before the camera at the same time; the two men face each other at a table and Anna sits or stands between them, stressing the triangle; when Old Man Christie vents his periodic...
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