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...from me to try and explain the movie. Perhaps it should be said that the film is not all abstract. A great deal of emotion fuses the color and sounds together. And for those who have a dread of the esoteric, it might be added that their baser instincts will be thoroughly aroused by a number of the scenes. Apparently everything passed over the head of the censors except Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase." On her, they have had some black discs appropriately placed. But throughout the rest of the film the libidos of the painters and musicians have...
...should He multiply these loaves for men, Those who were hungry? Why not destroy hunger? Or simply make man never to yearn again, Never dread dawn or fear the darkness longer? He did not say, We hunger not and need Not then be filled. Rather, I am not the first, Nor last, but only One of you to bleed With the paradox of thirst, to cry, "I thirst...
...very embarrassing-but not for newspapers and slick magazines. And not for Harry Truman, who is often blissfully unaware of whether his foot is in his shoe or his mouth. The victims were Truman's staff, whose unenviable lot it is to stand holding their breaths in dread of what the 32nd President of the U.S. may say next...
...Private Dread. Now that Premier Nahas' once popular Wafdist government is troubled by financial scandal, and his people by economic distress, he turns-as Egyptian politicians always have-to twisting the lion's tail. Privately, Nahas Pasha, like King Farouk and the rest of Egypt's upper crust, probably dreads nothing so much as the withdrawal of Britain's defensive screen. Without it, Egypt would be in poorer shape to resist the Russians, its own restless mob, and the Israelis, whom many Egyptians still fear. The British are convinced, as they were in Iran, that...
...Bubble. The trouble with Vera is that she doesn't really like herself, but rather than admit it, she has blown a big, pleasant bubble of egotism about herself. The least touch of reality, as Vera well knows, will collapse her flimsy shelter; so she lives in dread and hatred that slowly encompass almost everybody and everything on the island...