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...Party. Today Harry Truman stands higher in Democratic affections than he did when he left office on Jan. 20, 1953. Fondly remembered is the way he met international crises with sharp decision: the atomic bomb, the Berlin blockade, the Marshall Plan, Greek-Turkish aid, Korea. Fading into the mist of memory is the fact that his Administration not only failed to prevent domestic crisis but produced it wholesale: mink coats, Deep Freezes, red herrings, limited war, peacetime recession, agricultural waste, steel seizure. Since he left the White House, Democrats have come to look on Truman as a character, sometimes amusing...
...movie (Foxfire) was running in one of Andrea Doria's four theaters; in the plush, boat deck Belvedere lounge, dancers swayed to the rhythms of an eight-piece orchestra. Their last song: Arrivederci, Roma. In the cardrooms, bridge foursomes pondered hands. On deck late strollers tasted the mist and sniffed for land smells. Below, passageways were lined with baggage already packed and prepared for customs. Some passengers had retired early, and were already lulled to sleep by the soothing roll and the sea sounds...
...full-length feature called Fear and Desire, a story of four soldiers lost behind enemy lines. Unable to afford expensive fog machines, Director Kubrick at one point produced an illusion of fog with a California crop sprayer, almost asphyxiated cast and crew in a mist of insecticide. The picture, praised by the critics for its "visual power," was drowned in a downpour of public inattention. Killer's Kiss came next, a story about a pug and a floozy; financed by some friends of the family, it thudded even louder than its predecessor...
While I find much of his garish fantasy a little too theatrical, perhaps better suited to a New Yorker cover than a New York museum, Berger does have a good deal to say even in the atmospheric mist of his paintings. He also displays not only creative color sense but fine draughtsmanship. The economy of line and airiness of the ivory and sepia study Mother and Child are examples of the almost oriental sensitivity and skill of understatement of which he is capable...
...picture book for the baby's four-year-old sister with the comment, "Chick-chick-chick." Crossing into Scotland, Malenkov joined arms with a group of workmen at the modest Ayrshire cottage where Poet Bobbie Burns was born, and sang Auld Lang Syne in a rosy-red mist of good-fellowship. "Hip hip," cried one of the workmen, and the others chimed in, "Hooray...