Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bailey's face (on your cover), with its sternly chiseled features and cold, probing eyes, is a haunting one. Here is a man who has looked-literally-into other men's hearts; yet it is hard to conceive of his yielding to the more tender emotions, such as love and compassion, commonly supposed to spring from that most mysterious of human organs. Why don't you print a picture of him in a business suit, or doesn't he ever wear anything but his surgeon's trappings...
...Manzu won the grand prize for Italian sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1948, was commissioned by the Vatican in 1950 to do a bronze door at St. Peter's, had a recent showing in Manhattan, and is now represented at the Museum of Modern Art by his tender, elegant Portrait of a Lady. Discussing his own work, Manzu says: "Each man has his way of expressing the poetry within him. Some sculptors try the abstract way. My way is the figurative way." His series of religious figures and his robed female figures and nudes have dignity and grace...
...reality." The reality in this version of the oft-revised play was the revolt of fellow Hungarians. Until his final hour, the pacifist-minded doctor could see little purpose in getting involved, though it was violence to achieve freedom. As the hero's son, Bradford Dillman, 26, was tender and affecting, but in summing up his parents he also summed up what was wrong with the whole show: "They are wonderful people, but they are unreal and they don't really live in this country -in this time...
...ants do not destroy any specific crop. Their way of life is to tunnel underground, excavating a nest of interlaced chambers and building a solid mound about a foot high. Their food is juices sucked from plant roots and stems, seeds, tender shoots, and any insects or animals that they can kill. They go for fledgling birds, and even kill them in their eggs before they have quite hatched. Most conspicuous damage is done to vegetables...
...seen to it that the picture comes to a bloody climax in one of the most thrillingly realistic bullfights -starring the famous Mexican matador, Fermin Rivera-ever seen in a commercial film. It's great stuff for the youngsters, but apt to be rough on people of more tender years...