Word: janus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eared fox terrier on the cover of 60 Years of Music America Loves Best is a reminder that only the most famous U.S. recording company could have put together such an assortment. But the hit album (last week it was selling 5,000 copies a day) also expressed the Janus headed personality of the man who conceived it-a lanky, Viennese-born ex-advertising man and music critic named George Richard Marek...
This handy division of labor permitted the Russians to play the two faced Janus. Their prominent role at the Festival allowed them to take credit for the existing fragments of "peace and friendship", while behind the closed door others could stoke the furnaces of power politics...
...Magician (Svensk Filmindustri; Janus) is the latest public fantasy of Sweden's famed Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, whose last two exports to the U.S.. Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal, won hosannas in the art houses. Like them, The Magician pleases the eye and agitates the mind. But drifting with its phantasms is no easy matter, and many a moviegoer is likely, instead, to drift right out of the theater...
...Janus Films' latest import, which opened at the Exeter on Sunday, cannot help but enhance Bergman's reputation. It is a fine film, beautifully acted, with a superb scenario that develops into several sequences of unforgettable camerawork...
...highlight of the tour proved to be a subtle blend of Occident and Orient: the world premiere in Madras, India, of Symphony No. 13 by California-born Henry Cowell, a composer who has perched for many of his 62 years like an elfin Janus atop the steep divide between Eastern and Western music...