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...Blaine showed considerable imagination. "I'm always afraid that the Record American will dig up scandalous old pictures of two Harvard boys leaving the Charles Street Jail. The MDC caught these two fellows racing each other down the Charles River on two chunks of ice during the spring thaw. One of them was me, the staid discoverer of improper sex at Harvard...I'm no Victorian...
...BALTHUS-Thaw, 50 East 78th. Sketchily inconsequential ink illustrations for Wuthering Heights from the early 1930s, along with other drawings on view for the first time, show the director of the Villa Medici playing erotic games in line as well as color. Through...
...death was one of near panic, caused in part by plain ignorance of Johnson's views, in part by fear that the association of Kennedy's accused assassin with far-left causes would touch off a violent reaction in the U.S. and freeze the tentative thaw that Kennedy was encouraging. Anxious to size up Johnson in a face-to-face meeting, the Russians have already begun pressuring for a summit, possibly next spring in Stockholm. For the moment, Johnson wants no part of it. Neither does Rusk, unless some progress is made on such specific items...
Then Stalin dies. Spring is nigh, and the screen bursts with the flux of a great thaw. Glaciers move. Oppressive ice masses give way to a life-giving socialist sun, and quick as a wink all Russia is awash with sentiment. Such devices sweep Clear Skies right to the edge of a slushy cinematic wasteland. Trick effects multiply with stultifying regularity. The camera, scudding skyward, frequently pauses to record the emotional temperature, ranging from before-the-storm to lo-the-dawn...
Head Count. When the topic is Germany, the new, relatively friendly "spirit of Moscow" obviously does not apply. The cold war's thaw can turn into a freeze over trifling matters-in last week's case, a demand that the passengers on Berlin-bound allied convoys dismount from their vehicles to be counted by Russian soldiers...