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Bells Are Ringing (Arthur Freed; M-G-M). In this $3,000,000 Metrocolored musical based on her Broadway boff of 1956, Judy Holliday employs her limited vocal resources with showmanly style, supports them with a comic gift that is a major wonder of the entertainment world, and with some...
The point is keenly ironic, and many moviegoers will wish that Wilder and Diamond had lingered longer to drive it home. But they skip along like a couple of mischievous kids, serious about nothing but fun, much too shrewd to lecture the grownups-they might cut off a fellow'...
Fidel Castro's ambassadors on the isthmus are diligently stirring discontent with skillful propaganda, lending films, arranging free trips to Cuba, organizing "Friends of Cuba Associations," befriending labor unions. But so far, his implicit encouragement to revolution has not caught on in Central America. The five nations seem content...
Hairsplitting. But such cases are extreme. Almost invariably, last week's chosen few with average academic ability had other qualifications: an offbeat talent, a semifinalist rank in the Merit Scholarship competition, a drive to become something specific in life, a glowing recommendation from high school teachers. The Ivy League...
In describing these tiny embarrass ments, contests of will, vain attempts to please. Author Sarraute puts them under a microscope and painstakingly focuses and refocuses it till they are seen absolutely clearly but magnified a hundred fold. The character-specimens are so hypersensitive to each passing emotion that in real...