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...full of beautiful things he wants to say to pay a decent respect to how he says them. Bad scenes stand out glaringly against the fine features of his films. The story sometimes has to snore in the parlor while Renoir fondly lingers to adjust an esthetic or intellectual spit curl. All the same, his pulsing joy in all he feels and sees sweeps through his pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...battle when the paratroopers, successfully dodging the Nazis in the desert, blunder into a minefield. Newcomer Susan Stephen makes an appealing foil for Ladd: she is peppery enough in the early reels, and sufficiently soft in time for the clinch. The Technicolor is generally excellent. Leo Genn, as a spit & polish British major, has an amusing scene; encountering the informal crew of a U.S. bomber, he snaps to attention, explains: "I just thought someone ought to salute somebody around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...Kate wrote back to the boy she had never dated, reasonably suggesting that they wait until he returned home before making any such decision. But last week, when asked if she would marry Ed Dickenson, she had barely opened her mouth to answer when her mother, with an angry spit of snuff juice, snapped: "No, she ain't gonna marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: One Changed His Mind | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...moment of the binge comes when Joey walks into a cage, picks up a bat, starts swinging at baseballs spit out at him by a machine. Totally unconscious of the watching camera. Joey lashes out for dear life in a display of innocent animal vitality that creates one of the funniest, most beautiful passages ever to cross a screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 2, 1953 | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...modern sofa with a pair of smiling, five-foot Venetian blackamoors, carved in 1710. Among the more interesting experiments: ¶ A brass and wood Barbecue Room by Manhattan's Melanie Kahane, which brings the outdoor barbecue indoors. Along one side ranges a long barbecue counter with roasting spit and charcoal grill; along the others, a bookcase, radio and record player, a long grey couch, a low table and comfortable chairs. <¶A startling white and orange-red Japanese Sunroom Bath by Designer John Wisner, which puts a huge white-tile tub smack into what otherwise looks like a pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art for Interiors | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

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