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...four policemen are seen beating one man. One strikes him horizontally across the face, using his club as he would a baseball bat. Another crashes it down on top of his head, and still another is whipping him across the back. . . . In one such scene, directly in the foreground, a policeman gives the fallen man a final smash on the head before moving on to the next...
...foreground appears the bronze gate giving access to the enclosure reserved for counsel. In their favorite and ill-assorted chairs, the Justices relax in characteristic attitudes. At the left Justice Roberts, whose recent swing to the liberals has resulted in a series of decisions upholding the New Deal, pays close attention to the white-haired attorney (centre) arguing before the Court. Next comes conservative Justice Butler, hunched in his little chair studying a document. Liberal Justice Brandeis, 80, most ancient member of the Court, looks gauntly on. Conservative Justice Van Devanter, hearing one of his last cases, has his fingers...
...scene is a movie screen. After several flashes of main titles, names of producers, photographers, men who record, direct, edit, there is heard the mellifluous voice of an unseen commentator. A slow fade-in on a bathroom--small, title less, and complete. Five little tots pile into the foreground...
...Brothers Benno, Leo, Marco & Emil Scheiner, fresh from Europe, Artist de Chirico had fashioned a twelve-foot mural. A curly-headed youth in a collar much too big for him and full evening dress with swooping tails, occupies the right foreground. In the middle distance are a couple of characteristic de Chirico broken columns and an even more typical roly-poly, curly-tailed, prancing de Chirico horse, on which is mounted a man in a pink coat. Other figures seen are clothed in sack suits. "It took me about a week," said Artist de Chirico at last week...
That resolution brought into the foreground the much felt need for an enclosed artificial ice rink to stand on Soldiers Field. Such a rink, once built, could be expected largely to pay for itself from receipts and to open skating to Crimson teams...