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...Wanted. The Amazon's new awakening is beset with old problems. Tennessean Ronald Richardson, now 46, who after World War II duty in Belém stayed on to set up a lumber mill outside the town, knows them well; jungle vines are spreading over the mill and pigs root through his crumbling office. "It's here," he says. "No doubt about it-all the riches on earth. I don't know how to get it out, but dammit"-he pounded his desk so hard the Scotch bottle jumped-"it's here! We need men, real...
...last all danger was past, though the fire itself smoldered softly through the duff on the forest floor. Remarkably, nobody was killed (a few fire fighters were injured), and the only severe damage for Deadwood came with the destruction of the two lumber plants, a lot of dry lawns, a trailer park, a few houses on the town's edge, and Deadwood Dick's famous cabin in the woods. It was a nightmarish ordeal all around, but in the telling of tales that makes old Deadwood a paradise for tourists, it was bound to get much worse until...
Quicksilver or Bones. For 45 days before the festival this year, 400 carpenters worked three shifts around the clock to build the carts, each 45 ft. high and 35 ft. wide. (After each year's ceremony, the carts are torn down and the lumber sold to contractors.) The deities themselves take two weeks of preparation. First they are taken from their thrones to the holy bathing pavilion and bathed with scented water from 108 pitchers. Then they are repainted and dressed for their ride...
...film is not so much a motion picture as a photographed opera. Just to make sure the customers get the point, Vienna-born Director Otto Preminger has directed most of it as though it were a Bayreuth production of Gōtterdāmmerung, Choruses march and countermarch; actors lumber woodenly about the stage, obviously counting their steps, and then suddenly take up a stance and break into song. And for some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak in precise, cultivated accents that are miles away from the Negro slums...
...what they went through in the war, or what, but they aren't what they ought to be." Minsky's Burlesque Baedeker in brief: ¶Germany-"The girls are awful; there's no taste to their numbers. They just strip. All those great big girls lumber around like cows." ¶Italy-"I don't know why, but they import all their strippers. Italian girls are only interested in the movies. It's like Hollywood 15 years ago; every girl is a starlet. I didn't meet one who didn't claim to have...