Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christine has survived the years, two marriages, and a string of financed flings--and to Anthony appears the same. In the automatic magnetism and libidinous anarchy of the French, they become lovers. Only the shadow of Christine's "benefactor" darkens the happy idyll...
Lanky, affable Career Diplomat Robert Murphy is an old hand at applying diplomacy in the shadow of military force. An ace troubleshooter in France and North Africa during World War II, and later in the Trieste, Korea and Suez crises, Murphy last week moved unobtrusively about Beirut on his assignment as President Eisenhower's personal representative for negotiating a speedy political compromise among the little country's warring factions...
Admiral Larrazábal turned the army down cold. The Cabinet, minus Castro León, hurried down Mount Avila to confer under the protective shadow of navy ships commanded by Larrazábal's brother Carlos. In Caracas, a well-organized mob of 20,000 leftists marched into downtown Plaza Silencio with pistols, lead pipes and machetes to shout curses at the "dirty militarists" and, for good measure, "the Yankee imperialist dogs...
...painted by Grant Wood seemed to us like dream fantasy images'"), against the rigid structure of cubism, the cliché-ridden images of surrealism-and against the Government-commissioned mural painting of WPA. Above all they were revolting against the awesome dominance of Paris painting and the long shadow of Pablo Picasso. They were searching for something new, not as a school, but as individuals following nearby paths in the same wood. Some are still searching. "It's not that I'm against anything," says De Kooning, "but I'm more for myself...
...middle item, Shadow Play, is a confused, stylized soap opera about a marriage on the rocks. It uses flashbacks, flashaheads, and flashbetweens, with songs and rhymed couplets tossed in, if you please. It shows that the two stars ought not to sing in public; but it does provide a good final examination for lighting technicians and stagehands...