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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rich. As payment, the stars demand about half a movie's budget, and get most of it under the table ("black money") in order to bilk the tax collector. Although often of low-caste birth, they win such passionate public adulation (oddly mixed with India's idea that actresses are on a level with prostitutes) that they have to be constantly escorted by baton-swinging cops. "These are the new maharajahs," says one bitter moviemaker. "When I think of the money we gamble on them, I can't sleep...
...Poling, Dutch Reformed editor of the Christian Herald, reported that the leading spokesman for the Protestant missionary and educational groups in Formosa had told him: "Out here, the decision of the Cleveland conference is almost beyond belief ... To us it is betrayal-betrayal of their enslaved, tortured and often martyred fellow Christians in China...
Although his genius as an exhibitionist has often obscured his real importance as a painter, Dali clearly aims to exhibit many things besides himself. First on his list at present is the problem of finding visual equivalents for new-found scientific truths. To understand both painting and physics is not the same thing as to merge them, but Dali tries, and he is the only major painter making the attempt...
...requirement, it should mean mastery." He continued: "The lip service paid to foreign languages in the high school, is, I am afraid, a direct reflection of lip service paid in the colleges and universities. I strongly suspect that the proficiency in a foreign language that is often required for a bachelor's degree -indeed, for a doctor's degree-is the product of perfunctory timeserving in a minimum number of courses...
...Billy the Kid," says Dillon. "Our boys regularly draw in .14 sec. Of course, if they were going to keep up with the oldtimers on accuracy, our boys would have to do some target practicing, but they can sure draw faster. The oldtimers had real poor gun belts. They often carried their guns too tight in their holsters...