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Sebastian's propheteering publicity leads to an engagement with international Impresario Bimeter. All goes well until the clairvoyant discovers that his divine powers have some devilish effects. A man commits suicide because of his prognostications; Fedora's handwriting reveals to Sebastian what she really is. With the discovery that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Seen | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

So these new painters, the "Surrealistes" attempt to discover a world that is objective, non-abstract, meaningful, and yet inaccessible to the camera. They depict a world of the subconscious imagination, more real than conventional reality, fantastic in so far that it is opposed to the logic of our every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/3/1932 | See Source »

When Referee Gunboat Smith had counted six, Carnera started to get up. He then sank back and rested on one knee, finally rose eight seconds after the knock down. Sharkey, maintaining his reputation for hysterical behavior in crucial moments, seized Referee Smith, screeched that he had won the fight by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Sharkey v. Carnera | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

Many years of Mme. de Stael's life were spent in various European countries where her sparkling salons were centers of revolt against the oppression of French formalism in the arts. She was not too romantic, however, to forget her financial interests, and a large part of her correspondence with...

Author: By S. H. W., | Title: Economic and Social Life in America | 3/20/1931 | See Source »

Never did a Government stand in such need of "first class brains"; but the Earl was never worse cast than in his new role. To Birkenhead's cold, precise, savage legal mind Indian statesmen with their loose, mystic reasoning from aspiration and intuition were mere weaklings, chuckleheads, loons. By his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death of Birkenhead | 10/13/1930 | See Source »

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