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Contempt is decorated with posters advertising other films that Godard admires, and shots of paint-daubed statuary are inserted at intervals, presumably to suggest that a red-eyed Minerva gazes upon the 20th century with something less than Homeric tranquillity. The film's pretensions often make way for the most extravagant display of Bardot nudity yet seen. She appears nude in red light, blue light, and on a bearskin rug. "Do you like my ankles?" she purrs. "My knees? Thighs?" The question seems oddly beside the point for a director ostensibly contemplating the bust of Homer...
...meetings of the League of Women Voters, but I do think he should not have killed the little boy." She has a husband that will spend all the eloquence at his command celebrating woman as Venus or Venus-matrix but never as Minerva, a woman likely to put modern man through more troubles than the Iliad of misery Hector suffered under her command...
...from Leiden successfully wooed her, and the two were married in 1634. Rembrandt painted Saskia several times, often in the role of a mythological heroine. As in many of his early works, Rembrandt used a small (17¼ in. by 14 in.) wooden panel for his Minerva. He was a long way from his matured genius, but the little painting still displays his love of rich textures, of sparkling jeweled effects and dramatic lighting...
Mein Kampf (Minerva; Columbia...
Armstrong Circle Theatre (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Douglas Edwards narrates "Minerva's Children," a documentary about an elementary school devoted to gifted pupils...