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Among the exhibition's better and less ambitious pictures is Dreaming Girl. Outlined with conscious clumsiness, she fairly bulges her canvas. She is weighted with sleep, yet every line betrays a dreamer's restlessness. Her thick legs press together and her feet lock like hands; her head twists sideways as if to avoid the lute that lies across her. The painting clearly suggests the old Greek theme of Leda, with the lute serving as a dark swan. But Beckmann was not the man to labor his expressionism with handy tags and explanations...
...Front tops off the home front. Bill Mauldin's war cartoons are animated with David Wayne and Tom Ewell as Joe and Willie, at Loew's State, Broadway and 45th; and show is reputed to be almost as funny as the original drawings. Jose Ferrer moves lock, stock, and nose from the Bijou next door to the Golden on Wednesday in Cyrano de Bargerac; all seats are reserved...
...minutes-a resolution to appoint "a joint congressional committee to intervene and investigate . . . La Prensa, and the firms commercially linked to it, with the purpose of determining a definite program to be adopted ..." Until the Peronista-packed committee made its recommendation, it would in effect control the newspaper, lock, stock and presses...
...best way--and at the same time the least obvious--places you in a position of power. Simply double park in front of the main subway entrance, lock your car and walk off. You get double value. No one would dare steal your car from under the very eyes of the law and the novelty and audacity of your strategem will completely bewilder the traffic officer...
...President's backing) still insisting that the FRB continue to support the Government bond market, thus put unlimited cash at the call of banks, insurance companies, etc.? If he was, the inducement of higher interest alone would not be enough to persuade bondholders to lock away their cash in new Government securities. It was merely a sign that things might be moving in the right direction-away from Snyder's "easy money" toward a sounder monetary policy...