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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combination of unquestioning faith and unquestioned freedom of expression resulted in sculpture so powerful that it makes such moderns as Henry Moore and Jacques Lipchitz look like sissies. The wholly abstract mask used in the circumcision ceremony of the secret Poro Society of the Ivory Coast Dan Tribe, slams at the eye like a fist. The Ashanti fertility fetish, carried on the backs of pregnant women to help make their children beautiful, has the simplicity of a lollipop but the elegance of a Donatello; the yellow & black Ibibio carving, used in secret female dances, sits its crescent moon with awesome...
...Stevenson concluded that doctors should 1) look for emotional disturbances in all cases of irregular heartbeats, and 2) consider psychotherapy as another standard treatment for heart trouble...
...Angeles, Presbyterian churchmen decided that at its next meeting the presbytery would look long and hard at the circumstances under which Presbyterian Minister Stewart P. MacLennan considered himself at liberty to marry thrice-divorced Cinemactress Lana Turner to thrice-divorced Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. The presbyteries of Buffalo-Niagara, N.Y. and New Brunswick, N.J.-plus many a minister-had publicly raised their eyebrows at the Presbyterian nuptials (held in the home of the Hollywood Reporter's W. R. Wilkerson) three days after veteran bridegroom Topping's divorce. Chapter 12, Section 10 of the Presbyterian Directory...
London film critics and similar wardens of British taste hardly knew which way to look. After years of parapet-watching against the baser sort of Hollywood gangster movies, a gangster film popped into town that was really sending British eyebrows up. What hurt like a slug in the back: No Orchids for Miss Blandish was British-made...
...about U.S. gangsters, all right. British Author Rene Raymond, whose bestseller of the same title had sold a million copies, had never been to the U.S. He had, however, read a lot of U.S. pulps, and his dialogue tried to catch the tone faithfully. Samples from the movie: "Look, Fenner, don't put the squeak into Slim." "Ya, I'd like to plug him in the guts." Most of the sequences involved fairly normal business like gun battles, kidnapings, dopings, and Miss Blandish's suicide. But there was one scene (where Miss Blandish's fiance...