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...conditioned, and she gets ultraviolet light treatments. But sunshine? Never. Twice a day Sister exercises in an "outdoor" run -shingle-roofed, walled with Plexiglas and floored with specially selected gravel. Only when she is being prepared for show is Sister permitted the luxury of a bath-in liquid Lux detergent. Scratching is forbidden: it might damage her coat. Panting is frowned upon: it might destroy her air of "distinction and dignity...
...Deal on Madonna Street (Cris-taldi-Lux; U.M.P.O.), made in Italy by a little-known director named Mario Monicelli, is a mildly shaggy, fracturingly funny lecture on a subject that nobody since Buster Keaton has really done justice to: How Not To Commit A Burglary...
...spears, yet does not want anyone to suggest that he merely apes the Europeans. Most ads. therefore, picture him as what he would like to see himself as: the African of tomorrow, lightskinned, well-dressed, usually in comfortable surroundings. Coca-Cola successfully uses testimonials from U.S. Negro athletes, Lux from U.S. Negro actresses. One ad firm sold cigarettes in villages with the slogan: "Men about town smoke Commandos." Another company raised sales of its safety razor blade with an illustration that would make any Westerner turn to the electric razor: a scene showing the razor cutting a lion in half...
...year-old Orchestra of America, under Conductor Richard Korn at Carnegie Hall, presented a program of the kind of music it was founded to perform-little-known works by American composers. John Knowles Paine's Overture to "As You Like It" and Howard Hanson's Lux Aeterna proved merely to be pleasantly melodic, soundly constructed works with undistinguished profiles. Leon Kirchner's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra belonged to the crash-bang-and-meander school of modernism, with the violins chasing random single notes in sequence while the cello stuttered insistently, as if trying to interrupt...
...managing director of British Market Research Bureau Ltd., "the stereotype of the typical Englishman is changing; the 'new Englishman' lives in a home with central heating, drinks canned beer or soda pop while watching television (having just eaten a wimpyburger), has corn flakes for breakfast, washes with Lux soap, dries his hands on a paper towel and has an ice-cream bar for a snack...