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...first glance, the painting seems a straightforward depiction of the moment, two hours before the Crucifixion, when Christ was beaten, spat upon and mocked. But as in all Bosch paintings, the viewer becomes aware of overtones that disturb and echo in the mind...
...fool yourself, boy. I was a physics problem." Rembrandt's ghost spat on the floor...
...Brando? Meanwhile, the Bird is busy with his other charges. Hollywood recognized his belligerent direction behind Director Rouben Mamoulian's recent spat with Sam Goldwyn. (Even Mamoulian does not seem to mind that the publicity-reaping battle cost him the job of directing Porgy and Bess.) And not long ago, Birdwell sold gullible movie columnists the phony yarn that Greta Garbo had expressed an interest in the movie version of Lolita. Director Stanley Kubrick, who is Birdwell's client, is supposed to have ruled Garbo out of Lolita but offered her the part of Marlon Brando...
Radio Moscow, in ten languages, trumpeted that Pasternak had no place in Soviet society, that he was a man who "in spirit has long been a traitor to his country and has now spat in its face." The satellites fell tamely into line as the literary hacks of Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Rumania echoed the denunciations by Soviet hacks. Only Antoni Slonimski, head of the cantankerous Polish Writers' Association, sent Pasternak a congratulatory telegram and, at week's end, was still unrepentant...
...petty crime, poverty and prostitution. Last month a gang of white Teddy boys jumped a West Indian laborer and beat him with fists and clubs. A few nights later, another white gang beat up and robbed two Negro workers. The white wife of a colored man was jeered and spat upon by neighbors. Nottingham's Conservative M.P., Lieut. Colonel J. K. Cordeaux, told a mass meeting that it was a "scandal" that "foreigners" should come to Britain and drive up in cars to collect welfare benefits...