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...heartbreaking side of it was the innocence and misdirected sense of adventure with which most boys & girls began: the New York hearing made it obvious that many started in the same spirit in which they might have tried a high dive, swallowed a goldfish or taken up a fad for wearing pink bobby socks. In many a school it was a badge of daring and popularity. One student wrote in a theme: "I know that there is about four ways you can take it. Smoking, liquid, injecting and sniffing a powder. I know some friends that...
...Fad-starting TIME (with its "double-breasted seersucker" et al.) had to do it again by quoting Dan Parker's suggestions for the Russians who say they will compete in the 1952 Olympic Games [Parker samples: "the heel-and-toe walkout," "the running high dudgeon"-TIME...
...trip, to China in 1934, revolutionized Tobey's art. He studied Chinese calligraphy, came home convinced that the barriers between Orient and Occident needed leveling, and that he could help by interpreting the Western world in scrambled calligraphs of his own invention. They made his name, started a fad for snarled, sloppy-looking abstractions that is still going strong. Such younger Seattle painters as Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan sat at his feet for a spell, and Manhattanites Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning may well have been influenced by his exhibitions...
...touch of the Times," admittedly an "experimental film," is a silent Chaplin-type full length "fantasy" about a kite-flying fad among a group of tin workers. The same double standard applies here, too. The script drags in places, and the unusual musical score starts to grate after a half hour of it. This, if you expect a full-fledged Charlie Chaplin job. But the many clever scenes redeem the whole job if you judge "A Touch of the Times" for what it is--the surprisingly competent first effort of a new undergraduate group...
...cabaret, Bricktop gave them just what they wanted-notably, such old Gershwin songs as Lady Be Good and The Man I Love-in a contralto warm and caressing, for all her 56 years. For energetic youngsters, kicking up their heels in Rome's current Charleston fad (TIME, Dec. 18), Bricktop was at her best with Yes Sir, That's My Baby, backed by some solid rhythm from her band...