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...flounder's eyes pop out of its head and seem to walk around, as nervous and irritable as two monkeys on an organ-grinder's string...
...Walter Littell) with the extra-curricular passions of Electra, his brassy mistress, played by Hugh Fortmiller, Feek is ulcered into finding a new advertising glmmick to sell ball-bearings. With the help of vice-presidents Arbuthuot, Moriarity, and Carmichel (Ed Bursk, Stove Bolster, Tim Nichols), and a slogan-grinder-turned-playwright named Nadworney (William Allison), Feek finally produces a deus-exmachina legitimate play, plugging the sponsor's product...
...knows the appeal of luxuries from having been so long without them. As a boy in Montenegro, Savo tended sheep. After his family emigrated to the U.S., he had to take a job at the age of 16 in an Illinois coal mine. Following a stint as a tool grinder in a Detroit auto plant, he attended night classes at Washington University's School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, got a fellowship to Harvard. He had his first Manhattan show in 1940, and the critics hailed his down-to-earth pictures of Midwestern life as evidence...
...Organ Grinder showed a lonely street beneath an "El" station, with a solitary cyclist pedaling between the strangely elongated shapes of an empty city. Among Radulovic's most successful combinations of abstract forms with recognizable objects: Anesthesia, a big oil of grey, white and blue in which the surgical team is seen in triplicate by the almost anesthetized patient, and the last moment of consciousness is represented by a spiral nebula of whites and blues...
Although no definite proof is yet available, Chang felt there was strong reason to suspect the meat grinder, used in the preparation of stuffed cabbages, which were served Sunday...