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...issues is sound too. His robust sympathies never crush his judgment. Beneath the charm and humor, sadness lurks. Mr. Karl Marx Bo says, looking around the Moonbeam club: "Serious individual as I am, I cannot always resist the lure of a little imitation joy." By the end, the tinsel has peeled for Johnny Fortune. After a police frame-up and a month in jail on a marijuana charge, he sets out to join his family in Lagos-full of shame and defiance: "Let them kill every Spade that's in the world, and leave but just...
Hollywood, that sunny world of tinsel and glamour, dished out the Academy Awards last night in a restructured and shortened version of their annual ceremony of non-stop vulgarity...
...days of the French Revolution," wrote Jean Renoir. "Such a mass of stupidities concerning that period had accumulated, the men of the times and the ideals they held had been so distorted, that I imagined I stood before some sort of heroic mummery, before howling marionettes, decked out in tinsel--and not before men. Now, in studying in Revolution, one must realize that it was made by normal, intelligent, and congenial men. The astonishing thing about these men, perhaps, is their simplicity. I hope that the public will make friends with them and that it will not regret the passing...
...life I have seen nothing so perverse as these jet-age pleasure seekers unwittingly mutilating the natural charm of an isolated environment-destroying the very reason for which they came. In a short time the salient features of Morocco will not be deserted mosques or lonely hills but the tinsel and glitter of hotels, the ugly stretches of concrete highways, and most regrettably, the ubiquitous tourist...
Last week, in the sleepy port city of Cochin (pop. 35,076) on India's Malabar coast, glittering strips of tinsel and Stars of David were strung over a narrow two-mile street known locally as "Jew Town." Nearly 200 religious scholars, archaeologists and historians from Asia, Europe and the U.S. were in town, along with a delegation of Indian leaders led by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The guests had gathered to commemorate the 1900th anniversary of one of the smallest (100 people) but most resilient communities in the Dias pora: the Jews of Cochin...