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...almost the same time that Bender staggered into the Claverly lobby, a fire started in room 41. A student and the night superintendent managed to get into the room, pull out a burning sofa, and extinguish the fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomore Suffers Injury In 'Accident' at Claverly | 11/1/1954 | See Source »

...expense attempt, egregiously cast, costumed and colored (in Eastman Color and Technicolor, too), to take the moviegoer on an elaborate tear through 18th century England. Censorship being what it is, the spectator generally has to take the vulgar intention for the vicious performance: he sees the ornate Regency sofa, but not what happened on it. Art Director Alfred Junge and Costume Designer Elizabeth Haffenden are in fact the real hero and heroine of this picture. The script (based on the old Clyde Fitch-Richard Mansfield heart-tugger that had four runs on Broadway) just moves the actors briskly from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...Pick Them. Nine out of ten people who buy reproductions may know or care little about art. They may be housewives in search of a sunset to hang over a mauve sofa and a painted bouquet to match the floral drapes in the guest room, or decorators trying to bring dreadful cheer to thousands of bare hotel rooms. Stacks of floral pieces, faithful dogs, pink-coated huntsmen, summer landscapes and angelic children are certainly a "common heritage," but not the one Malraux talks about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THANKS TO REPRODUCTION | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...smooth!" says the first of them (Shawn Smith), and Quinn begins to rumba toward a sofa, gently oscillating her pelvic region with a towel. "Don't press your luck," warns the second (Mary Ellen Kay), but it is not his luck that Anthony presses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Collectively titled Joy of Living, Kasiulis' 27 canvases are all nostalgic, tender scenes with an old-fashioned sentiment about them reminiscent of the designs in petit-point footstool covers. Harmony shows two blonde maidens sitting together on a fringed sofa, both playing the same guitar. Prelude is an idyllic rural scene, with meadows, trees and a clear blue pond; a graceful boy and girl are about to eat a picnic lunch. In The Portrait, Kasiulis mildly lampoons his own profession he shows a grave, bearded artist painting a mirror-like portrait of a model gaily dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Joy of Living | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

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