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...smooth-surfaced canvases were standard O'Keeffe: quasi-mystical, highly polished designs inspired by New Mexican landscapes and still lifes. There was the bald roll and wrinkle of creviced hills, Black Place III, suggesting the convolutions of a human brain. There was the shock of a swatch of blue sky seen through the gape of sun-baked bones, Pelvis III. There also were canvases which seemed to represent nothing whatsoever in nature: skillfully colored symbolic forms that were sure to stir the imaginations of most gallerygoers...
When last seen, the insurgents were still headed toward the Nicaraguan border, in frantic flight. General Noguera had jettisoned his hat, his sword, and his valise, which contained a bugle, a swatch of silk underwear, a bottle of perfume...
...Fifth War Loan needed a shot in the arm. D-day had come and gone, spurring individuals to buy a vast swatch of E bonds. The B-29 raid on Japan sold several million dollars worth more, leading the Tokyo radio to explain that the U.S. bond drive was "one of the greatest swindles in American history." But now sales were lagging almost everywhere. So the Treasury Department razzle-dazzled a lukewarm public with more & more sex, sentiment and stunts...
...turn this silky swatch of cruelty and suffering into dramatically coherent, steadily intensifying terror takes considerable style in the staging, and gets a lot of it from everyone involved, especially from Cinemactress Bergman. She wears her bustled gowns in a way to set off the flagrantly beautiful interiors of her home. The role's extremes of neurotic desperation are beyond healthy Miss Bergman, and, wisely, she never attempts the babbling hysteria or shrieking rages that made Judith Evelyn's performance the sensation of its first season on Broadway. But she brings fine and passionate insight to her gentler...
...Here, Private Hargrove (M.G.M.) is war training expurgated by comedy. The picture dubs the title of 1942's bestselling, cubbish comedy of barracks life onto a swatch of slightly whimsical photographed cartoons. Typical cartoon: a soldier, agonizingly wriggling forward under barbed wire and live ammunition, exclaims: "My, this is exciting...