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...also of their inexperience. As Romeo, Laurence Harvey fails to generate much glandular heat, and, like most Romeos, reads his lines with a kind of empty fervor. Susan Shentall, while reading hers without distinction, nevertheless has what is so rare and so right in a Juliet: a delicate haze of sensuality that clouds the clear child face with passion's promises. The scene in which Romeo and Juliet meet, in which she foots the galliard, and the two touch trembling hands in the dainty ballad of the masks, is a passage paced to the heartbeat of first love...
...baking sun make him feel good. In the sea haze, from the blue water, amid the occasional flying fish, ideas seem to appear-Hemingway notions about how things are. "When a writer retires deliberately from life, or is forced out of it by some defect, his writing has a tendency to atrophy just like a limb of a man when it's not used." He slaps his growing midriff, which, in his enforced idleness, is spreading fore and aft. "Anyone who's had the fortune or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape...
...false claims, multitudes of health-seekers from all over the country have flocked to California-only to discover that its sunshine is as phony as the cowboys and sophisticates one sees at the corner of Hollywood and Vine. When not obscured by total smog, the sun shines through a haze similar to the one produced by burning charcoal. Its effect on animal and plant life is also well nigh the same...
...evening last week, an exhausted young man staggered into a climbers' base camp with word that an avalanche had overtaken a party of five men and three women under the crater's rim. He had heard the thunder of the slide, then screams in the cloud haze that enveloped the peak. Groping through the darkness and swirling snow, he found a youth and a girl, half buried and moaning with pain. Their companions were lost somewhere in the snow...
...rule for cartoonists is to develop an instantly recognizable style, and stick to it. By ignoring this rule Steinberg has made himself the Picasso of the profession. He can enclose what he sees in a few simple lines, like bent coat hangers, or dissolve it into a haze of dots, a la Seurat. He draws on top of photographs, and occasionally draws imitation snapshots. He can and does mimic passports, old maps, and documents with ink drawings that look fairly convincing and 100% illegible. He will make a thumbprint do for a man's face, a chest of drawers...