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...Picasso's lady diver stands poised and suspenseful on a sturdy diving board, a child bather lurks in water up to his chest, and the four remaining figures idle at poolside. like beach bums anywhere. Houston's museumgoers were sufficiently startled to pronounce the whole exhibition "Sweeney's Swimming Hole." but the Houston Chronicle was impressed: "It would seem." the paper said, "that for the first time the challenge of the hall's proportions has been met with sculptures of the perfect heroic dimensions...
...Richard Diver (Jason Robards Jr.), a young American psychiatrist, attached to a clinic in Zurich, who has committed an emotional breach of professional ethics: he has fallen in love with a patient named Nicole (Actress Jones), a charming American girl whose father has left her several million dollars and a psychosis-the aftermath of an incestuous episode. The head of the clinic (Paul Lukas) urgently warns Robards against the union: "A man cannot be both lover and psychiatrist to the same woman. You cannot be an impossible image of perfection, a god. and a husband too. When she discovers...
...served as house comic in a burlesque hall, gave a snake-oil spiel for a stunt-driving show, and worked the circuit as a comic diver-but when he was ordered to plunge 90 ft. into a 7-ft. tub of water, he quit, saying "Look. I'm getting $16 a week, and that won't even pay for the iodine." His first big-time comedian's job came at Manhattan's Club 18. a downstairs bin where everybody on the staff took part in the act. even the waiters and chef. One day Hollywood...
...walked to the end of the board like a diver. He stood on his toes like a diver. He flexed his muscles and took a deep breath like a diver. But Adlai Stevenson finally decided not to take the political plunge. Last week he announced that he would continue as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations rather than run next year for U.S. Senator from Illinois...
Hurt by the graduation of their top sprint star and one diver, the cadets have gained several strong newcomers from last year's Plebe squad, including an exceptional 220 freestyle man. But, while they are much stronger than the Springfield team the Crimson shellacked 73-19 last week, the Army team could leave Cambridge without a single first place...