Word: fooled
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...Alee Guinness' new movie, The Promoter, is very good. It is more than that, it is. . . stop, you fool, or you'll have to begin again. It is very good for a simple reason: the actors in it, especially Guinness of course, are really acting, not just saying lines. Fully as much of the humor in the picture comes from small gestures, various wrinklings of faces, tones of voice, as from the lines or the situations themselves. Nothing is done without a purpose; every move, even the smallest, is invested with some meaning and contributes something to a characterization...
Died. Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly, sixtyish, self-styled "Luckiest Fool in the World," who enjoyed a brief celebrity in the frivolous '20s by sitting for days on a 13-inch disk atop flagpoles (his record: 49 days and one hour on a pole on Atlantic City's Steel Pier in 1930); of a heart attack, while walking on a sidewalk with a relief check in his pocket and a scrapbook of old press clippings under his arm; in Manhattan...
...Jacob Epstein, one of the greatest living sculptors, is a bullet of a man with an independent eye and a longstanding reputation as one of the bad boys of art. "The man in the street is a fool," he once declared. And the public has usually returned the insult; shocked art lovers once set on Epstein's early Rima, a lumpish, bas-relief nude, and painted it green. But in recent years, both Sculptor Epstein and his critics have mellowed a bit. Last week, after a look at a Tate Gallery show spanning his life's work, London...
...recruiters fool you: the Army is hard up for officers and you don't have to enlist to be one. If you don't like waiting around and want to go into the Army on a specific month, just ask your selective service board and they'll be glad to draft you earlier...
When he was just 14, Harrison's mother died, and his father grieved himself to pieces. Harrison quit school and pestered a local contractor for a job. "Son," the contractor told him, "you're a damn fool to go into building. Go into farming, that's where the money is." Nevertheless, he took Harrison on as an office boy, and later even let him diagram some stone designs. Harrison soon noticed something about the contracting business: the contractor took his orders from the architect. That decided him: he would be an architect...