Word: manners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's decision the Supreme Court, after running a private screening of the picture, relied on Justice Brennan's opinion for a standard of obscenity: "Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. [Obscenity] deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest." The court thus seemed to reach its conclusion on the evidence of the film's content alone, not on the fundamental question of prior restraint, i.e., the constitutionality of community and state censorship laws. It has yet to make its views known on that score...
...million-plus estate of the late Cinemogul Louis B. Mayer (TIME, Nov. 11) was divided, as now disclosed in his probated will, in L. B.'s characteristically forthright manner. To L. B.'s favorite charity, the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, will go the bulk of his fortune; a remaining amount of some $2,500,000 was left to his second wife Lorena ($750,000), his daughter Irene Selznick ($500,000), his adopted daughter Suzanne ($500,000), friends and faithful retainers. But Mayer's daughter Edith, 52, and her husband, Producer William Goetz, were left with nary...
Agee had a unique way of looking at reality, unblinking and with the lens-precision of the movies he loved, yet gentle-the manner of a tender realist. His description of how the boy and his sister are led to see their father's corpse in the coffin will linger with readers for a long time...
...clever and delightful animation of the drawings of school children. The second, a British import, is a bit more serious in nature. Called Animated Genesis, it most skillfully and beautifully depicts a view of history, even if one cannot agree with its utopian conclusions. Using colored abstractions in the manner of most avant-garde films, it is much more successful in putting over ideas by patterns and symbols than the majority of attempts to use this format. The film has much in common with a number of semi-propaganda cartoons of the thirties, displaying the same sort of over-simplification...
...chooses a mysterious queen as the ideal figure of his verses, only to be beheaded by her jealous husband, is open to a multitude of different interpretations. But Liam Clancy, the poet, and Lew Petterson, the king, do violence to Yeats' poetry by speaking in a falsely declamatory manner. And John Lancaster's music usually conceals the playwright's words rather than underlining them...