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...Japanese defense of Manila, Filipinos spoke the name of General Tomoyuki Yamashita as if it were blasphemous. When peace came and the "Tiger of Malaya" was brought to trial, they crowded the courtroom to stare. As they had expected, he looked like an ogre-a squat, shaven-headed, simian figure in a green uniform. When prosecution witnesses told of the raping, killing and burning which Manila had endured at Japanese hands, many in the audience guessed that the verdict would be quick and harsh...
There was also his seven-foot, simian, pink alabaster Adam, sometimes referred to as "a biologist's nightmare" or "three tons of ugliness." An Australian gold miner bought Adam for $35,000. For like Epstein notoriety, Epstein prices have soared steadily upward. In each esthetic crisis Sculptor Epstein has remained cosmically bland...
...squat beside piles of grain and peppers, there is Harar's market place. Before the town's Law Courts there is a constant babel of dissatisfied litigants. In five minutes on any street one may see an Armenian fighting with a Hindu; an Abyssinian woman with her simian face smeared with rancid butter to keep vermin away; an old bishop who knew the strange, sad, lame poet-adventurer Rimbaud, France's Byron, when he lived in Harar; a beautiful, brown-skinned, high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood on her head as if it were...
Both novels are about George Webber, a bulky, simian creature with knee-length dangling arms and a Webster-length vocabulary. In The Web and the Rock, George left his home town, Libya Hill, Old Catawba (North Carolina), to become a famous writer in Manhattan. Much of The Web and the Rock was taken up with the fits & starts and impassioned prose of a love affair between would-be Writer George and wealthy, married, Jewish Scene Designer Esther Jack. When love threatened to supersede writing, George fled to Europe. You Can't Go Home Again resumes this unsatisfactory affair after...
...gaunt, incisive portrait heads, he has kept the public roaring at his huge, paleolithic figures, whose potent brutality has shocked the prissy, angered the academic and given him the biggest headlines of any contemporary artist. Last year Sculptor Epstein produced his latest shocker, a three-ton, seven-foot, simian statue of Adam in pinkish alabaster, whose bull-bold virility made pulpits seethe, strong men blush and the public flock to look (TIME, June 19 et seq.). Exhibited by an enterprising purchaser as a side show at the English summer resort of Blackpool, Adam grossed some $250,000 from drop-jawed...