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...Women (Embassy). Sophia Loren is a fine Italian ham, but unfortunately most U.S. directors can't see the prosciutto for the melon. Vittorio (The Bicycle Thief) De Sica knows better. In Gold of Naples he cast her as the main dish in a penny-a-pizza palace, proved her a comedienne with wit as well as It. In Two Women he demonstrates that given astute direction and the chance to play in her own language, Actress Loren can also fill a tragic role...
...week's end the Mexican minister counselor in Washington prevailed upon Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg to order the removal of the 1,700 braceros employed at the 15 struck ranches. Thus emboldened, the A.W.O.C. now threatens other valley lettuce farms, will probably hit the highly perishable valley melon crop after the lettuce season ends. With a foot in the ranchers' gate, the unions are now hoping to kick the gate down...
...Living Eye. For Durrell, this discovery is a kind of Dionysian revel of language, a sunburst of images. Red wine is "volcano's blood." The evening air is "cool as the breath from the heart of a melon." A sunset in Rhodes becomes a conflagration. This is the kind of thing Durrell does so well that he tends to overdo it. But, periodically, he lifts imagery to insight. Many have written of the preternatural brilliance and clarity of the Greek light, but Durrell sensitively isolates its effect when he calls Greece not a country but a living...
...less than their best to their own company, needlessly exposes the company to the peril of stockholders' suits and a damaged public reputation. To avoid even the appearance of wrongdoing, many a U.S. executive could well recall an old Chinese proverb: "When passing through your neighbor's melon patch, do not stoop to tie your shoe...
...xenophobic as anything in Saki's short stories. But Author Tracy also shares with Saki a grand and grisly way with a funny anecdote, as when a decorous lawn party belatedly realizes that the West Indian gardener who lopes by is carrying in his hand not a melon, but the severed head of the cook. Before he is carted off to jail, forlorn Henry decides that the contemporary world is one where virtue and vice are "superseded by Good Public Relations and Bad." Even more catastrophic is his final moment of revelation: "We're all West Indians...