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...Summer Splash. He had first met Princess Sabiha Fazilet on the French Riviera two years ago, when she was 14. They met again beside the Bosporus this summer. Taking his ease aboard the royal yacht Queen Aliyah, the young King found himself often in the company of buxom Princess Fazilet, whose ancestors were for centuries the rulers of the Ottoman Empire. The tall, athletic girl towered over Feisal, but she soon took to wearing flat-heeled shoes, and she was undeniably handsome...
...Pedro (1931), The Last Adam (1933), The Just and the Unjust (1942), and now By Love Possessed. Still another novel, Guard of Honor, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1948. Nevertheless, the hardcover sales of all Cozzens' books combined (140,000) lag well behind that current dreary splash in a small-town sex sump, Peyton Place (250,000 copies). The interior decorators of U.S. letters-the little-magazine critics whose favorite furniture is the pigeonhole-find that Cozzens fits no recent fictional compartments, and usually pretend that he does not exist. This is particularly puzzling because no U.S. writer...
...logical extreme of its illogic. would make nonsense of law enforcement and justice. To refute Griswold's hypothetical cases of innocent men invoking the Fifth, Hook offers some cases of his own. including that of the man who goes fishing with a companion: a cry and a splash are heard: a drowned body is found. What would anyone think, asks Hook, if the fisherman refuses to reply to questions with the explanation that "my answer would tend to show me guilty of a crime...
...painter, Mi Fei kept his best work for his friends' appreciation alone, and even then never allowed them to touch the silk for fear it would become soiled. His painting pointed to a new direction. Originating a pointillist style of ink-splash dots (still known as "Mi-dots"), he produced in paintings like Auspicious Pines in the Spring Mountains China's first impressionist landscape. Its curious sugarloaf mountains are drawn in loosely applied brush strokes and washes, trees are carefully controlled blobs of ink. The human scale is merely suggested with the bare-bones outline of a lone...
...feet of film, trenchantly photographed by Richard Bagley (The Quiet One). All this has been sensitively cut by Carl Lerner into a 65-minute movie that promises the safe delights of slumming but carries the, spectator into scenes that will sear his eyeballs like a splash of rotgut...