Word: maling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lighted fewer candles at the altars. Explained sad-eyed Maria Rodríguez, as she stood in the queue at the corn mill on Niño Perdido Avenue: "When artificial light burns while a comet is in the skies, newborn babies will be marked, on their bodies if male and on their faces if female." The other women nodded soberly. "Even if all the lights are out," said Juana Sanchez, "one hundred children will be born this year with harelips, two prominent men in the government will die, and two great plagues will sweep the world." A couple...
...Shankar danced. He danced in Vienna, Paris, New York, and all over India. He stuck close to his country's classical traditions, mastered its every style, from the elegant Manipuri to the fast-footed Kathak. In time, he became the greatest male dancer India...
Betty Grable, looking sober as John Foster Dulles throughout, inherits the dancing by default. She's got a walk that would keep any normal male supremely happy for two reels. But it takes more than a wiggle to pull you through that long third reel...
...form and style, completely lacks character and emotion, which ordinarily are among the chief concerns of writers. A story in the current issue called "Love Me, Love My Novel" is just this sort of fiction. So is one called "One Less Vote For Wallace." It is about a young male reader of Thrilling Love Stories who tries to make time, on a Thrilling Love Stories basis, with a young female Wallaceite. Even if you are not so sensitive as I am and don't mind lines such as "He kissed her squarely on the lips. Not enough. He gave...
...relieved, by your assurance that Miss Judith Anderson has never considered "playing Medea naked from the waist up (as Euripides intended)" [TIME, Oct. 25], but I wish that you had given us your source of information as to Euripides' intentions. Since his Medea was played by a husky male whose head was encased in the huge mask-apparatus, whose stature was increased by the kothornos, and whose hieratic vestments excluded any suggestion or realism, it is difficult to imagine-except in terms of Salvador Dali-the effect which you suggest...