Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vice President Barkley- drive up, announced briskly: "Here's the Veep," and pumped his hand. At the top of the ladder, Acheson turned and waved cheerily. "Bring home the bacon," shouted John J. McCloy, the new American High Commissioner in Germany. "Bon voyage" shouted Alben Barkley. Harry Truman looked at him in mock amazement. "What did you say?" he asked, then turned to look for French Ambassador Henri Bonnet. "Hey, Bonnet, this guy's trying to talk French," said Truman gleefully...
Short on plot, Canyon is long on curry-combs and pancake. Most of the principals, both two-legged and four-legged, look as sleek and dustless as the population of a dude ranch. To give their implausible doings a sagebrush flavor, the dialogue is spiked with labored cracker-barrel idioms, e.g., Ann is "pretty as a blue-nosed trout," another character as "crazy as popcorn on a hot stove." No one but the popcorn addicts and the very young will mistake Canyon for anything but a dull movie...
Devil in the Flesh. A moving, French-made look at the pleasures and perils of adolescent love, with Gérard Philipe and Micheline Presle (TIME, March...
...Paul Wilson (Character Wylie's nephew: no relation to Author Wylie). His dank hair is trailing over his forehead. "I'm in love," he cries. "And the girl's a whore." Character Wylie, whose air of learned sang froid is notable throughout the novel, takes one look at the girl, name of Marcia, and makes another fast diagnosis: she is a raving nymphomaniac and wholly unsuited to a career of nuclear research...
...want to paint a tree," gruff Sir Alfred had snorted at a recent R.A. banquet, "for heaven's sake make it look like a tree!" Matisse's La Forêt (in London's Tate Gallery) did not look a bit like trees to Sir Alfred. Argued Matisse, why should it? Such "material truth," he said, might as well be left to photography. The truth modern painters like himself are after is something else again; it "comes out of the mind of the artist . . . the sentiment of an artist moved by the spectacle of nature...