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Next day the Daily Mirror's irrepressible columnist, Cassandra, described Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, scent-impregnated, chromium-plated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love" and declared that "he is the summit of sex-the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter . . ." The Sunday Pictorial ran a story headlined MY LOVELY BOY, by "Momma Liberace," and printed a picture made up half of his face, half of hers...
...proving profitable to artists and art lovers alike. A one-edition gouache or oil by France's most popular younger painter, 28-year-old Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952 et seq.), costs up to $3,500. One print from his 75-edition Still Life with White Fruit Dish costs only $80, but sale of the whole edition would mount up to $6,000. Top Italian Painter Afro, 44, winner of Italy's first prize for painting in this year's Venice Biennale, gets $700 for a work the size of his abstract lithograph The Watchman...
...Ugetsu and Gate of Hell. The film has the quality of endless resonance that distinguishes the true myth. Like a gong, it is small in itself, but the sound of it carries a very long way. The reverberations of the culminating symbol: the tree of life that bears the fruit of death, a death whose other name is love. For Western movie goers, the reading of such symbolic language is apt to be as tiresome as the study of Chinese script; but fortunately, Director Kenji Mizoguchi (who also made Ugetsu) has provided the picture with physical as well as spiritual...
...flour mill, an automatic bakery that can supply all Kabul with baked goods. Almost every drop of gasoline used in the country now flows down from the north in caravans of 20 to 50 Russian gas trucks to sell for a giveaway 25? a gallon in Kabul. Exports (furs, fruit, carpets) that used to stop and go at the Khyber Pass with every Pakistani whim now travel north to more cer tain Soviet markets. U.S. officials estimate that there are already several thousand Soviet do-gooders spreading their blessings in Afghanistan. Last week Kabul's only modern hotel...
...five days, the visiting Russian athletes had a high old time. Every morning they trained for the pre-Olympic track meet at London's White City Stadium. There was steak for breakfast, baskets of fruit, great bowls of yoghurt. There was also time for sightseeing, movies (Cinerama Holiday, Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush) and, best of all, shopping...