Word: dwarf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brutally beautiful French novel about Indo-China on which this film is based. "They were a kind of calamity . . . They came each year, by periodical tides, by crops. They were everywhere, perched in the trees, on the backs of buffaloes . . . in the mud, looking for the dwarf crabs of the rice fields, [and] they were always followed by packs of stray dogs, whose . . . main nourishment was their excrement . . . They died in such numbers that they were no longer mourned . . . They simply returned to the earth like wild mangoes falling. They died of cholera . . . Some drowned in the river. Others died...
...Dwarfs & Giants. At a reception for 600 given by Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, at posh La Redoute, Mikoyan at first sipped listlessly at his champagne, having previously confessed that he was not much of a drinker ("Whisky I don't take at all because of the smell. I drank it once in America"). Then as ebullient Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss charged into the room, Mikoyan's sour mien brightened. He opened the conversation bluntly. "You are a nice man, but we don't particularly like your speeches. Why are you arming with nuclear weapons...
...Bauhaus. Paul Klee is an artist who needs no post-scripts or excuses. His touch may become a trifle too casual at times but it never loses its integrity. Its poetry is always there to dwarf the importance of titles and methods. In short, his work stands of its own strength. A comparison of Klee's work with a wall of Kandinskys opposite, is a course in aesthetics all by itself. The similarities involved are sufficiently tangible to have linked the names of Klee and Kandinsky in the public eye. The differences, however, are more significant. Klee is the depth...
...18th century pleasure park. For scenery and costumes, Designer Rouben Ter-Arutunian borrowed brilliantly from the delicate woodland scenes of Watteau and Fragonard, gave the NBC color cameras an enchanting palette of shimmering pastels. Through a dream world as mannered as a minuet glided fauns, harlequins and unicorns, dwarf attendants and monkey footmen. Olivia (Frances Hyland) wooed the disguised Viola (radiantly played by Rosemary Harris) while floating in an elegant barge. When Malvolio (Maurice Evans) puffed with pride over the forged love letter from his mistress, he stepped into a decorated balloon and soared straight...
...Venice likes to guess at what goes on behind the blank white walls of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, a curiously truncated structure that jealous city officials stopped at mid-construction in the 18th century for fear that it would dwarf the city hall across the way. Up from the gondola landing stands Sculptor Marino Marini's strident Angel of the City (1948), a youth on horseback equipped with a detachable phallus that is respectfully removed whenever the Patriarch of Venice floats by to bless the city. Inside the palazzo, behind a 12-ft., barbed-wire-topped wall, lies...