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...Metropolitan Opera faced an exhausting week. It began when the stagehands, who have worked for more than a year without a contract, failed to turn up for a rehearsal of Bellini's Norma. Members of the office staff sweated over heavy props and managed to get some of the proper lights running...
...star of the show was Norma, a statue by Sculptor Abram Belskie, whose measurements approximate those of the average U.S. woman age 20-24. Specifications: height, 5 ft. 6 in.; weight, 123 Ibs.; bust, 33.9 in.; waist, 26.4; hips, 37.4. As described by Anthropologist Harry Shapiro, Norma, following the general U.S. trend, has greater height, a heavier waistline and narrower hips than the women of previous generations. But, though taller than her grandmother was, Norma is still dwarfed by the present-day fashion ideal. Dr. Shapiro doubted that Norma would get much taller in the future, since the U.S. process...
...history toe the party line in the Ministry of Truth. Actor Eddie (Roman Holiday) Albert, who has often skillfully played Hollywood's average man, portrayed Smith's crimethinking (dangerous thoughts) and search for ownlife (individualism). His short-lived love affair with Julia, the rebellious Anti-Sex Leaguer (Norma Crane), was carried on against a background of omnipresent two-way telescreens and the horrible, bloated face of "Big Brother...
...previous major attempts: Warner's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) with Mickey Rooney, Joe E. Brown and James Cagney; MGM's Romeo and Juliet (1936) with Leslie Howard and Norma Shearer. Financially and artistically disastrous, these productions convinced Hollywood that Shakespeare was "boxoffice poison...
...told of Pfc. Richard Barcello of Tucson, wounded on Triangle Hill, being carried to a field hospital by another soldier from Tucson, and then being treated by a doctor from Tucson. When Barcello reached the base hospital near Tokyo, the Star reported, the nurse assigned to him was Lieut. Norma Ashburn-from Tucson...