Word: ectoplasm
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...pale pastel turbans. One picture (by Denmark's Olav Mathiesen) of a shy nude and a knight was called Chaucer-Woman in Bath; Mexico's Victor Manzanilla-Schaffer, of U.N.'s narcotics division, contributed an abstraction which looked like a one-eyed blob of ectoplasm, called Ritmo (Rhythm). Asked a wag: "What's that? It looks like UNESCO...
Having learned how to handle ectoplasm lightly and deftly from English movies such as "Blithe Spirit" and "Stairway to Heaven," the men in the shadow of Beverly Hills have made the romance of the shade of a sea captain and a very much alive young widow, excellent and almost believable entertainment. Only the loud, artificial background music is out of place. The widow, Gene Tierney of course, is beset by all sorts of worries from beginning to end. She has no money to pay for the rent, so the captain dictates the story of his life to her, which...
...Ghost and Mrs. Muir (20th Century-Fox) seems like a bit of ectoplasm left over from Blithe Spirit, but despite that handicap does fairly well by itself. A pretty English widow (Gene Tierney) rents a house by the seashore, complete with ghost. The ghost (Rex Harrison), all that is left of a fierce-whiskered sea captain who died there, still loves the place and jealously scares off new tenants...
...shape of things to come in the peacetime U.S. was still forming hazily, like ectoplasm at a spiritualists' meeting. But U.S. citizens, staring with a séance-sitter's skeptical fascination, began to nudge each other last week. Government and industry really seemed to be conjuring a facsimile of normal living...
Diplomatic Ectoplasm. Then a reporter touched off the week's most provocative piece of news. "Mr. President, did Mr. Churchill ever sign the Atlantic Charter...