Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweet & Young. To her practiced eye, the debutante party is a poor pitch. The boys from Harvard, Yale and Princeton who throng the stag line and trace the source of champagne and Scotch to the pantry with the single-minded cunning of a parched mongoose, are not what she is looking for. Said Joanne: "I don't really like college boys. I know what they are going to say and how they think. They're so silly, and don't know how to drink." Some of the college boys seemed to share her indifference. Said a Yale...
...regards wars and famine (among humans) with a friendly eye. Of China he says: "There is little hope that the world will escape the horror of extensive famines in China within the next few years. But from the world point of view, these may be not only desirable but indispensable. A Chinese population that continued to increase at a geometric rate could be a global calamity. The [peace] mission of General Marshall in this unhappy land was called a failure. Had it succeeded, it might well have been a disaster...
...sentimental horseplayer in the stands tried to fill out the empty track with bygone horses. How would Citation look against Equipoise, Count Fleet, Exterminator? How far off the pace, or how far in front would Man o' War be at the half? (Old Big Red had been eye-catching, with his giant 24-foot stride...
...cool, keen eye for the construction of things in nature and on paper makes Karasz' designs consistently acceptable, but like any artist she hits her peak only occasionally. One of the best papers in last week's show, a linear, oriental-seeming study of ducks in long grass (see cut), was inspired just back of her Brewster, N.Y. house. "We had a pair of yellow ducks," she explained, "and the children were chasing them. All I had to do was put it down. Things often come that way, but of course I understood how the blades of grass...
...fact, the picture drags on too long after its climax, frittering away the power it has built up. Despite these shortcomings, Director and Co-Adaptor Jean Delannoy has a picture that he can be proud of. Against the crisp beauty of Alpine backgrounds, caught with a sharp pictorial eye, he has also caught the sorrow and frustration of the picture's real setting-the shadowy corners of the human heart...