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The culture seems very much American-oriented; "hot" jazz, "rock and roll," and American movies dominate. The only calypso one hears outside of the tourist traps comes off of Belafonte records. (This isn't quite true. Calypso is native to Trinidad and is heard at great length at the spring...
In one of his few "good guy" roles, Peter Lorre plays a Dutch college professor and novelist who hears of the legendary Dimitrios Makropoulos in Istanbul, and begins a search for biographical material which leads him across tense, 1938 Europe to Paris and a meeting with the ruthless spy. The...
The day that U.S. paratroopers landed, ex-Infantry Officer (Lieut. Colonel) Harry Ashmore sadly welcomed the invasion of Little Rock as the shock that might prompt Arkansas to "regain perspective, restore peace, sustain the law." The Gazette seemed even to prompt the enthusiastically pro-Faubus evening Democrat to aim a...
After all that chatter, Sugar's workout with gloves was an anticlimax. A leather helmet complete with chin guard and nose piece protecting the old scars acquired in 148 professional fights, he lazed through four rounds. Sparring partners put on a fair imitation of Basilio's brawling style...
Most horrifying of all (to a novelist), Pinfold hears a man called Clutton-Cornforth reviewing his books on the BBC: "The basic qualities of a Pinfold novel . . . may be enumerated thus: conventionality of plot; falseness of characterization; morbid sentimentality; gross and hackneyed farce alternating with grosser and more hackneyed melodrama...