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...girls decide that something must be done and, in a remarkable display of Gallic logic, convince themselves that murder is the answer. They feed Paul a sleeping potion (Simone professionally raises his eyelid with her thumb to be sure he is really out cold) and then drown him in a bathtub while the camera records every detail with an evil relish-right down to putting a heavy bronze lion on his chest to keep his head under water...
...nature and rhyming are suspended. Cruelty can sound carelessly gay, love may be a mere whim, and justice a joke. And yet violence never seems to hurt, love in the child's world is really everywhere, and justice has its own triumphs, as when kings are reduced to thumb-size and beasts are great with wisdom. These verses have, in the words of Poet Walter de la Mare, "their own private and complete little beauty if looked at closely...
...ballet dancers, women bathing and race track studies of jockeys and thoroughbreds that Degas made famous with his paintings. But the studies are far from being ancient relics from th past. The wax figurines by their very defects-the mark of being studio studies their unfinished surfaces, even the thumb prints left by Degas' nervous, racing hands as he worked-gain a sense of startling immediacy...
Thereafter, all the decorative oddities, all the artificial-comedy attitudes of The Chalk Garden prove a legitimate contrast and offset to a certain muted reality. Not without cost has the companion achieved a green thumb for people as well as plants, where the other characters all show gloved or clammy hands; not without reason has she been able to make things grow in a garden built on chalk...
...state of martial law. It was not, however, the first demonstration of Democrat Menderes' liberties with democratic procedure. Under its repressive, criticism-squelching 1954 press law, the Menderes regime has arrested some 40 journalists. The once independent judiciary has been placed under the public prosecutor's thumb...