Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anti-Japanese feeling dies hard in Australia. Last week, a decade after Tojo's men were driven out of islands adjacent to the southern continent, Australians were excited anew about the "Yellow Peril." Into Rabaul Harbor came a Japanese pearling ship, its crew battened below decks, its captain a captive of Australian Planter Ray Stacey, who, with the aid of native islanders, had seized the vessel at the Feni Islands, 80 miles to the southeast. Australia accused the Japanese of violating immigration laws, but the real charge was poaching pearl shell beds in waters which the Australians insist they...
Carmen Jones. Red-hot and black Carmen, with Dorothy Dandridge putting the torch to Bizet's babe and Pearl Bailey hearsing around in the wide-screen wings (TIME...
...Washington the Premier of the country that attacked Pearl Harbor only a little more than a decade ago was given the warmest of welcomes. He addressed the National Press Club, and went to the White House for a conference and a pleasant lunch with President Eisenhower. When Yoshida arrived on Capitol Hill, the Senate gave him a standing ovation. "A great friend of the U.S. in the cause of freedom," said Vice President Nixon in his speech of welcome...
...lack of any better adjective, "Pearl" is a tender story. Cynthia Rich has captured the speech of young and old with remarkable insight. An old nurse says, "I can hardly expect you to believe this, but until I was sixteen, I had hair just like Miss Pearl's. Yellow hair right down my back, and as fine . . ." In this piece touch is the contact with external force and beauty: the downiness of a dead bird's feathers, a young girl's long blonde hair, warm sunlight...
Carmen Jones. Red-hot and black Carmen, with Dorothy Dandridge putting the torch to Bizet's babe, and Pearl Bailey hoarsing around in the wide-screen wings (TIME...