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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked nonCommunist. Pravda struck equally hard at the architects who went in for many-columned neo-classical facades (like those in Washington, D.C.), and the functionalists whose housing projects looked like "military barracks." Just what, then, should a proper Soviet structure look like? Pravda didn't seem to know much about architecture, but it knew what it didn't like. Western architecture, said Pravda, "has reached a dead end of formalist sophistication and box-style, soulless construction [but] Soviet art is always going forward along the road indicated by the party and the government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art for Marx's Sake | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...there's no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Hot Potato | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...must be directed by Wyler, Frank Capra or George Stevens). Meanwhile, he is free to accept offers from Broadway, where he is also in great demand. One offer is for Lillian Hellman's forthcoming dramatization of the best-selling The Naked and the Dead. Clift doesn't know whether he'll do it : he hasn't seen the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...mishandled the stars in the show. Elizabeth Taylor, who is just beginning to move into grownup roles, is one of the loveliest girls in movies; but here she is made-up and hair-done and directed into tired, tiresome conventional prettiness. Miss Garson has beauty, vitality and professional know-how. These are all visible, yet the performance is almost never joyous or even convincing. It looks as if she herself is trying her level best to be everything that Metro has made of her, and nothing that she really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT CHAMPAGNE? Cook's Imperial Hostess Service will be happy to help you with your party problems, as well as send you a fascinating booklet on champagne. Just write to Hostess Service, American Wine Co., 321-F So. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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