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This week shrewd Manhattan Art Dealer Sam Kootz opened a group show devoted to the weird shapes modern painters had made of women. His prize exhibit was a painting by the high priest of painful distortion, Pablo Picasso. Picasso's recent "Woman in Green"-a pink snout snoring over a swamp of green swirls-had successfully enraged London last year and was now appearing for the first time in the U.S. Georges Braque's supporting contribution was a painted plaster bas-relief of woman as lo, a harried heifer...
...hangs on to a low bush by his two hind legs and gropes hopefully with the other six. If, animal or man brushes past the bush, the tick grabs on with all eight legs, makes for the skin. Having attached himself, the tick bores in with his hard snout and begins to suck blood...
Every Sunday before broadcast time (3 p.m. E.D.T., ABC), to "warm up" the studio audience, Lassie yips, yowls, quivers, limps, rolls over and generally works himself into a lather (which Weatherwax wipes off with a clean handkerchief). Then he bounds onto a table, squats with his snout a professional six inches from the mike. "On-the-air" is signaled, Lassie barks, the show...
...have shot, the prisoners they have tortured. Side by side with obscene French pictures they carry sentimental photographs of their wives and children. They are "libertines, Sodomites, perverts" who think nothing of wearing the bloodstained underwear of the juvenile victims they have raped. German women represent the "greedy, drooling snout of a German hyena." Ehrenburg, the Soviet's most widely read writer, believes that Russians have been vastly hardened and strengthened by their conflict with the invaders, but he doubts that the Germans can ever be educated back to sanity. "Fuse bombs," he muses, "leave a good impression...
Viscount Halifax perched atop a tank, toured a proving ground at Eddystone, Pa., clutching a gun snout for support, later whipped around the field at 40 m.p.h. inside the tank, declared the posting was a cinch...