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...human omelet which included Dorothy Lamour and Myrna Loy, an audience of 2,089 packed into Manhattan's Rivoli Theater to witness the most important screen premiere since Gone With the Wind-the first showing of For Whom the Bell Tolls...
Correspondents live circumscribed routine lives in Moscow, have their most excitement trying to beat each other to the wire. After breakfast (tea, toast, and cold sausage, cold fish, occasionally an omelet), in their dimly lit, chill rooms at Moscow's squat Metropole Hotel each morning, they hurriedly compose stories culled from four Moscow papers-Pravda, Red Star, Izvestia, Komsomolskaya Pravda. They get their stories reviewed by Russia's sharp censors, then they race to the cable office. For a time Reuters' Harold King had the edge because he hired a motorcyclist. Nowadays U.P. and A.P., employing...
Edmund Wilson's latest book is chiefly interesting because it shows an outstanding U.S. literary critic as a satirist in verse and prose. Two of the best pieces are wicked parodies, one in prose, one in verse. Verse parody is the salty Omelet of A. MacLeish, in which Critic Wilson paraphrases the Librarian of Congress' smooth pentameters, feminine endings, assonance and love of colons...
This monumental exhibition represented 17 years of Painter Tchelitchew's work. Chief target of ahs and bahs was the artist's most recent work a 78½ ft.-by-84¾ ft. canvas entitled Hide-and-Seek. Some spectators thought it looked like a gigantic omelet composed, not of eggs, but of innumerable infants. Others thought the picture looked like a vast translucent cranium containing a number of babies enveloped in autumn leaves, some of the children still foetal, one blue-veined crimson hydrocephaloid boy on its stomach, another urinating. Persistent spectators sooner or later discovered that Hide...
Rumer Godden is one of the most interesting of bad writers, or else one of the most unsatisfying of good ones. Breakfast With the Nikolides is much sharper and more mature than Gypsy, Gypsy (TIME, Aug. 12, 1940), yet as a whole the book is like an overcomplicated omelet prepared by an amateur chef too late at night for those who must digest...