Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firing lines. This is politics." But Johnson hates to get shot at. He spends hours each day devouring everything written about himself in Texas weeklies, in all the major U.S. newspapers and magazines, in the Manchester Guardian and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ("These men writing for foreign papers seem to understand me better than the men writing at home...
...death." The canvases are huge-up to 17 ft. long-and show somber blacks and greys on white, shades of fuchsia and ochre in thinly applied paint. The designs are utterly abstract: looping, recurving spirals and disturbed, bulbous forms. They have haunting titles: e.g., Visitation, Listen. They mostly seem to express death-haunted themes that, Lee Krasner says, make it "hard enough for me just to accept my own paintings." But they also strike a lonely note of hope: one of them is entitled Birth...
Jews may drink as much or more, but they seem to number fewer alcoholics. Of the three major U.S. religious groups, Jews have the fewest teetotalers: 13%, as compared to 21% of Roman Catholics and 41% of Protestants. Regular drinking (three or more times a week) is reported by 23% of Jews, 27% of Catholics and 13% of Protestants. But when it comes to alcoholism, Jews are virtually out of the picture. First admissions (1929-31) per 100,000 of "alcoholic psychotics" in New York state hospitals: Irish, 25.6; Scandinavian, 7.8; Italian, 4.8; English, 4.3; German, 3.8; Jewish...
...endeared him to the secret police of Franco's Spain, was awakened one chill dawn by a knock on the door. After eleven days of questioning in jail and protests by French intellectuals, he was released and allowed to finish the film. The experience, it would seem, did not intimidate...
...situation is timeworn, but Director Bardem manages to make it seem fresh. His scenes of the wooing, though there are too many of them, are often affecting. The man (Jose Suarez) is ardent and ashamed by turns, the girl at first stunned, then slowly filling up with happiness, as a cup fills with clear water. Days she wanders dreaming through the house, spreading out her clothes, lingering at mirrors. Nights, abjectly available, she clings to him like sticking plaster, tells him too much: the agony of waiting, of being 35 without...