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...studio limp as a wet dishrag. In 1953 Pollock took up brushes again, using his drip technique less and less frequently, to produce his last spurt of genius. In Portrait and a Dream, he showed the dichotomy between the monochrome meandering of his somnolent mind and the colorful mask of his own waking self. In Easter and the Totem, he paired a budding lily with a brown bullet totem that juts into the canvas from the left. He painted The Deep, a blinding flutter of butterfly wings which gape apart to reveal a fissure roiling like some hellish furnace...
...finished his works. His top price while alive, $10,000, soared ten times higher. Imitators flooded the art market with works that drooled more like a hungry walrus than like Pollock's. Few ever managed like Pollock to puncture what his favorite author Herman Melville called the "pasteboard mask" of visible reality, to pierce beyond the surface into the reasoning soul of men's minds...
...northwest of Madeira. Already, thick, billowing smoke was seeping from under the door of the barbershop, where the fire apparently had started. And by now, the flames had burned their way through the floor. So thick was the smoke that Passenger George Chapman was forced to grab a gas mask as he tried to force his way below to his sleeping three-year-old son Geoffrey. "I thought if I had to die, I wanted to die with our baby," Chapman says. "Halfway down, I saw an engineer coming up through the smoke with Geoffrey in his arms. That...
Love with the Proper Stranger. This romantic comedy-drama succeeds in spite of itself, for it is brimful of enough warmth and hip humor to mask a decidedly rancid plot. The girl Angie (Natalie Wood) is a clerk at Macy's. The boy Rocky (Steve McQueen) is a part-time musician temporarily bunking with a nightclub stripper, Edie Adams. One day at Rocky's union hiring hall, Angie appears and tells him: "I'm gonna have a baby." He blinks at her, then: "Congratulations." He can't remember the girl's name...
...violently whirling plane, trying to bring it out of the spin. Only at 6,000 ft. did he give up and eject, parachuting minutes later onto the Mojave Desert with burns on the left side of his face and neck, probably caused by ignition of the oxygen in his mask. The scheduled later assault on the Russian-held world altitude record from ground take-off (113,890 ft.) was scrubbed-and a colleague added an understated postscript to the incident: "The colonel stayed with the plane a little longer than personal safety would have dictated...