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...little farming town of Fosterburg (pop. 250), Ill., had only half an hour's warning. Just after 6 o'clock in the morning, sunlight turned a sickly yellow and a warm wind blew. Then darkness fell] rain poured down in torrents, and a roar "like ten express trains" filled the sky. A Mrs. May Dingerson opened her,back door to investigate the awful noise. The door flew away. Then her front door flew open and all the windows burst. She felt as if her ears were full of water. Then everything went black. She woke, bleeding...
...semidocumentary, The Naked City was filmed almost entirely in the streets, apartments, stores and offices of New York City. But Bellinger's New York is not a dark, tense, malignly beautiful community; evil things go on there, but by & large the city is bursting with energy, grandeur, sunlight, human variety and an eager journalistic glamor. All these qualities linger pleasantly in the mind long after the picture is over...
Koerner's work, too, is theatrical. He illuminates almost every scene with the pitiless white glare of stage lighting-never sunlight or moonlight-and his actors move and speak with exaggerated force. These devices, skillfully employed, make Koerner's paintings more arresting than those of such established U.S. realists as Philip Evergood and Ben Shahn. But they are not enough to explain his disturbing power. Koerner's storytelling art is one of implication, and its very theatricalism serves to imply that the "real" world which man has made is equally a fabric of illusions...
...reticent to relate his own, too sympathetic to shut them up, and too polite to razz them. Like Eugene Gant in Look Homeward, Angel! and like a thousand other intellectuals in American fiction, he thinks in a scrambled poetic prose-The memory of her face had the time of sunlight upon...
...Arab side of no man's land, the magnificent old stones of the Wailing Wall, worn smooth by centuries of kissing by devout Jews, shone brightly ; in the brilliant sunlight. There were no Jews there, and the three British constables guarding the wall said that none had visited the wall since trouble broke out. When we crossed the Old City to the First Station of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa, crowds of Moslems were coming out from Friday prayers at an Arab holy place, the Mosque of the Dome of the Rock (often miscalled the Mosque of Omar...