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Eskay Patil fired corrupt, naive and inefficient Congress ward bosses. While Nehru spoke softly abroad of Communists, Patil plastered Andhra with lurid pictures of Communist atrocities in Red China (TIME, Jan. 31). He exploited the fall of Malenkov as proof of Communist failure and decay. "Five acres per peasant -we will give you land," the Communists insistently proclaimed. "Give the Reds your vote," Eskay Patil responded, "and you give away your freedom...
...then refused to paint it, explaining in despair: "Few people would believe they are real rocks." Painters also found their ingenuity taxed by the great spaces and the harsh light of the West. Lacking an adequate technique for handling light, they often fell back on filling their canvases with lurid sunsets, fire, even rainbows, to give the impact of the West's grandeur. How effective this stratagem can be is shown by Charles Wimar, an immigrant German boy whose murals in the St. Louis Courthouse were the first west of the Mississippi. By painting straight into a sunset...
...defeat came after Michael J. Harrington protested against any censorship, on the grounds that college students are responsible enough to be trusted. Harrington said no freshman would vote for a candidate who put up a lurid sign...
...Ostia beach 13 miles southwest of Rome (TIME, Feb. 15). At first her death was dismissed as accidental drowning, then came hints of murder. Suddenly sparked by a criminal libel suit, a vast scandal flared up, involving sex, narcotics, and playboys with high connections. The trial produced lurid accounts of the ringleader, one Ugo Montagna, whose claim to be a Sicilian marquis proved to be bogus but whose talent in another direction was undeniable: despite his luxurious way of life, he paid little income tax, and got away with it. Also involved was young (32) Jazz Pianist Piero Piccioni...
Apparently such picture-stories filled the need of a century ago which "true-life" comics and pseudohistorical movies now supply with considerably more effort and expense. Seen in flickering candlelight and buttressed by proper rhetoric, they presented a lurid, larger-than-life view of the nation's early history...