Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wisdom offered an extraordinary visit with Pablo Picasso, whose serene and massive figure illuminated the screen with almost as much distinction as his art. In his cluttered studio in the south of France, the 75-year-old artist sketched a town scene, fashioned a big-beaked bird from a freshly molded clay vase and made a figure on the floor from a clay pipe, broken bits of pottery and an olive branch. But he never uttered a sound. "I do not talk," Picasso had told NBC. "I only paint." In a fascinating finale, Pablo, bare-chested and wearing soiled black...
...Bride and Groom had a "big surprise" for the groom last week, and he coyly let the audience in on it: he had corralled the bridegroom's best friend for a "completely unexpected appearance" and was hiding him behind a screen offstage...
...Well, if it's anything like rehearsal this afternoon, he would be sitting behind that screen over there...
Talking up some great fights now, Sugar allowed that after he takes care of Carmen Basilio he might still not be ready to retire. "I'm something of a thespian," he announced grandly, "and I've had offers from stage, screen and television. But first I'd like to fight a few nontitle fights. I'd like to go to Rome and fight for the Pope's charity. Then I'd like to put on an exhibition in Tel Aviv. Then I'd like the State Department to let me go to Russia...
...immediate establishment of national committees to judge the moral qualities of radio, television and films. Comparable to the U.S.'s National Legion of Decency, which evaluates only films,* the committees will be guided by the Pontifical Commission for Movies, Radio and Television. Vatican officials say the committees will screen news broadcasts, drama and other entertainment and "compel decent programs" by expressing "forcefully" to broadcasters the public's disapproval of "ether indecency...