Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like an extra figure in an intimate photograph, the fifth token will lie stealthily in the pocket, only to reappear invariably when something else is sought. Craftier folk will attempt to stuff it into telephones, slot machines, parking meters, and the like, without notable success. At last, the aggravated token holder will trudge through the turnstiles once again, step from the platform, betwixt the sliding doors to disappear forever in the oblivion of a one-way trip to Jamaica Plain...
...study of the McCarthy side of the case, he testified, McCarthy's counsel Roy Cohn had told him that Stevens requested an picture of himself with Schine. Said Jenkins: "He told me that he had documentary evidence . . . Nothing was said to me, I am sure, about the photograph being altered, changed, edited or otherwise. I accepted it at its face value...
Diary of a Country Priest (Brandon Films) is an attempt to photograph a religious experience-an attempt in some respects as naive as training a telephoto lens on the firmament in the hope of catching a candid shot of God. And yet, Director Robert Bresson is a man whose errors are more interesting than the hits of most other directors. In this French film, the outward and visible symbols he finds for the inward and spiritual states of the famous (1937) Georges Bernanos novel are vivid enough to excite the intellect, though they do not always agitate the heart...
Among the honorable portraits of 13 former mayors of the Japanese city of Moji (pop. 110,000) which hang in the office of Municipal Assembly President Kiichi Suematsu, the likeness of an Occidental dignitary was placed. It was the celebrated nude calendar photograph (3 ft. by 2 ft.) of a recent visitor to Japan, Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Explained Assembly President Suematsu, whose idea it was to round out his gallery: "The picture should serve to rejuvenate our municipal assemblymen...
...This World (Theodore R. Kupferman) is compiled from Technicolor footage shot by Lowell Thomas Sr. and Jr. on the much-publicized trip the commentator and his son took to Tibet in 1949. It is a cinematic counterpart of the long evening with a photograph album. The pictures are often amateurishly taken, the continuity is rakishly discontinuous, and the narration is written and read like a fifth-grade paper on How I Spent My Summer Vacation...