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...next year's bathing suits will be conservative (see cut). Cole has little but scorn for France's famed Bikini bathing suits. Explains he: "French girls, have short legs. Swimsuits have to be hiked up at the sides to make their legs look longer." Cole's new bathing suits, as form-fitting as ever, go in heavily for vertical patterns to help the wearer look slim. The brightest eye catcher on display was a lace & jersey suit sparkling with 24-karat gold. Price...
...anthropology lesson into the action, Broken Arrow views the notorious Apaches through the eyes of the white settlers, building a fearsome picture of their terrorism around an Arizona outpost. A frontiersman (James Stewart), tired of the fighting, gets the crazy notion that Cochise may listen to reason. Ignoring the scorn and warnings of the other settlers, he schools himself in the Apache language and lore, sends up introductory smoke signals and rides off alone into the dreaded Indian territory. Director Delmer (Destination Tokyo) Daves puts a fine edge of suspense on Stewart's long ride, his entry into...
...prison camp they are painfully disappointed. The older prisoners, Afrika Korps veterans, scorn the Cassino captives as traitors and. cowards. A shadow Gestapo, working under the inexperienced eyes of the U.S. guards, rules the prisoners through terror. When the anti-Nazis appeal for protection...
...years, the U.S. has had a high old time sneering at George Babbitt-the bumptious bandersnatch businessman cartooned into being by Sinclair Lewis. He was the all-American philistine of the '20s. The '30s and '40s tried to kill him with scorn. But he was a tough old party, and now, it appears, he has a son & heir following firmly in his daddy's footsteps. In the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Poet-Historian Peter Viereck introduces "Gaylord" Babbitt,* old George...
Posterity, ever since Composer Schumann's day, has been listening to the huge resounding and romantic symphonies of Hector Berlioz, and trying to decide just how good "this Frenchman" was. Today 81 years after his death, detractors of Berlioz still scorn him as a crude noisemaker who marshaled whole regiments of instruments and singers to gain his fantastically emotional effects, although most of them will grudgingly admit that he contributed some new colors to the palette of orchestration. His fervent admirers, even those who are troubled at the ease with which he passes from the sublime to the banal...