Word: facings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gravity. Yet Soviet-bloc delegates insist blandly that it isn't so. At Lake Success last week, after weeks of tedious arguments, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky added a new twist to the choreography. He agreed that the rebels had received arms-but, he said, with a straight face, the arms had come from unnamed groups in France, Italy and Turkey, via "maritime channels...
...peak strength of 5,000 men, Macao's defenders crowd the little colony so that it appears armed to the teeth. But, as one high officer observed: "It's just a face-saving army. We don't have enough men to stop anything at the border, and too many for the simple job of keeping order in the city...
...Director Emrich Nicholson concluded that glamour girls look their best only against exactly the right backgrounds. For example, he said, Betty Grable shows up fine in a curlicued Louis XV setting, and Jane Russell seems to "go with a haystack." Nicholson found one exception: Ava Gardner. "With that face and figure? Heavens, she'd stand out in front of almost anything...
Then the family moved to China. In Shanghai, it was easy to find good Russian teachers. One of them, George Goncharov (who now teaches at Sadler's Wells), recalls that "directly I saw her I knew she had a ballerina's head. Her face-she was very attractive with big, dark eyes-seemed to talk to me. She held herself beautifully. She was always somehow intent, as though she had some idea that she knew what she was about...
...emotion," found that the movies gave her emotions an enjoyable vicarious workout. Banks did not try to pin down the turning point, but many a student of the cinema thinks it was that shattering 1931 scene in which James Cagney pushed a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face. From that day on, the oldtime sleek romantic screen lover began going into eclipse...