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...they change into what you want them to be." But, as a man who has used the same tailor in Berlin's Leipziger Strasse for the last 50 years, he shows spurts of impatience with people whose habits clash with his. When a clergyman once pulled out a dwarf cigar at a church meeting, Dibelius' goatee shook. "Nein, Bruder, nein," he said, proffering a cigar of his own, "if you must smoke a cigar, smoke a real...
Land of Surprise. Black Africa's awakening is spotty and inconclusive-more a blind, biological ferment than a self-conscious surge of nationalism. Africa is still a land of weirdness and surprise: of seven-foot giants like the Watussi, the world's champion high jumpers; dwarf antelopes no bigger than a terrier, and goliath beetles the size of a dove; Pygmy hunters with humplike buttocks, and the society of Leopardmen, whose ferocious devotees riutilate their victims with tiny knives that leave marks like a leopard's claws. Across Africa's unplowed ranges roam herds...
...sullen olive groves and dwarf wheat fields around San Severo, on the spur of the Italian boot, have long bred Communists. Working for as little as 64? a day on land they could never buy, the San Severini were eager listeners to Communist organizers, who promised "The land will be given to you when Palmiro [Togliatti] is Premier of Italy...
Moulin Rouge (Romulus Films; United Artists) is a fictionalized biography of famed French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). The son of a nobleman, Lautrec was crippled in childhood and grew up an ugly, aristocratic dwarf who tried, in cognac and in the brothels and bistros of Paris, to forget the pain in his legs and heart. When he died at 37, after a feverish lifetime that included a sojourn in a madhouse, he left behind him a vivid record of the lower depths of Paris, its harlots and hunted, defeated and disfigured, drawn with artistry, insight and compassion...
...dual role, Jose (Cyrano de Bergerac) Ferrer, 5 ft. 11 in., plays Lautrec's father and, standing on knees in stumpy boots for closeups, 4 ft. 8 in. Artist Lautrec. (A dwarf was used for long shots.) Ferrer's is a startling physical likeness: bloated lips, bulbous nose, bushy beard, pince-nez and bowler. But, although his well-nourished performance touches on Lautrec's wittiness and waspishness, it sometimes seems to miss out on his inner loneliness and agony. The women in Lautrec's life make an exotic gallery: blonde French Dancer Colette Marchand...