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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whenever he stepped into the White House Cabinet Room last week, the President of the U.S. ran spang up against a sight that made him wince. Around the room were stretched easeled posters on which the progress or lack of progress of his 1957 legislative program had been dutifully drawn in grease pencil. The pencil marks were hardly encouraging; Dwight Eisenhower's associates got the impression of a man hurt and angry...
...trucks that entered Naples loaded, came out the other side of the city stripped bare. Legend has it that Neapolitans stole an entire ship, plate by plate, out of the harbor. A favorite street game is for a big boy to beat up a crying youngster within sight of a horrified American tourist. The American breaks up the fight and leaves full of virtue-minus his wallet...
...handhold. In twelve hours the climbers inched upward only 1,000 ft., camped at dark on a precarious ledge. Throats parched, they longed for the water they had left behind in order to travel light (total equipment: 18 lbs.), listened to a stream rippling inside the rock out of sight...
Taming Madness. Goya, the painter of Spanish court tapestries and of such lovable children as Don Manuel Osorio, forever lost the world of sound through his illness in 1792. He feared for his sight as well, and even for his sanity. Slowly he ceased painting charming pictures and embarked on the hard-to-take masterpieces that made him an immortal. His purpose, he wrote, was simply "to occupy my imagination, which was troubled by consideration of my ills." Goya's art, Malraux maintains, consists of "taming madness so as to make a language...
...will vastly amuse, if not stupefy, all who adore or detest television and the institution of advertising. Bearing virtually no kinship to George Axelrod's play of the same name, this Success, a happy direct descendant of custard-pie slapstick, is one of the silliest strings of sight-and-sound gags ever to jounce through the sober inhibitions of staid latter-day Hollywood. Producer-Director-Writer Frank Tashlin, a onetime Disney cartoonist and sketching fabulist (The Bear That Wasn't), plays the yarn strictly for laughs...