Word: photographic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moth caught in a beam of light." Flouncing down to Charleston, S.C., the twitchy bobby-soxers' twitchy idol made an even deeper impression upon the press. The local News & Courier sent one of its newshens, customarily safe in its education department, to try to talk to Presley and photograph him. As she aimed her camera at him. Presley impetuously leaned over and gave her a love bite on the hand. The lady reporter protested. Wagging his tail cordially, Dixie Pixy Presley drawled: "I was only trying to be friendly, like a little puppy dog." This explanation was rejected...
Bach for Percussion (New York Percussion Ensemble conducted by Harold Glick; Audio Fidelity). Four familiar Bach organ works rapped out on the numerous wood, skin and metal objects of a modern percussion department. The result has the effect of an X-ray photograph of a flower-barely recognizable, eerie and oddly fascinating...
...hopes, and the merciless way in which her hope is broken is the theme of this moving book. The button-eyes of her shoes, a cracked lithograph of the Sacred Heart, and her aunt's photograph are the familiars of her lonely misery. These possessions symbolize the three elements which transport Judith Hearne to her doom-genteel poverty, a puritan concept of Catholicism, and the aunt who had exploited pity to keep her in domestic servitude...
Scampering aboard a plane in Los Angeles, impulsive Judy Spreckels, 24, ex-wife of Sugar Daddy Adolph B. Spreckels Jr., was soon in Memphis and the offices of the daily Press-Scimitar. She had learned that a photograph, made last month in Las Vegas, showing her with dreamboat Groaner Elvis ("Hi luh-huh-huh-huv-huv yew-hew") Presley, 21, had appeared in the newspaper, and she had hopped to Tennessee to buy some copies of that edition. Was she in luh-huh-huh-huv with Presley (TIME, May 14)? "Oh, no, he's too young," cooed Judy...
...money from a field of Hollywood also-rans. As the leader of the gang, Actor Hayden gives a believable performance. As Hayden's henchmen, Jay C. Flippen, Ted DeCorsia and Joe Sawyer have the right wrong look; when the camera catches them together, the screen resembles a class photograph from San Quentin. And as the philosophic muscle merchant, Kola Kwarian throws the bull as charmingly as he throws the bulls...