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Days of Wine and Roses. Remick-on-the-rocks with a twist of Lemmon is the recipe for this effective temperance lesson...
...night that he got back to his home in Solingen to find a heap of his paintings, which had been on exhibition, "standing in front of my door in the rain, having been thrown out of the gallery by the Brownshirts." But Meistermann's miseries had one positive twist. "In those days, my paintings reflected my darkened state of mind. They were full of heavy black lines. Suddenly, this gave me an idea." The lines were like the patterns of stained-glass windows, and they led Meistermann to a new art form...
Love for Trees. Khrushchev described with horror a recent jazz concert he attended ("One would have liked to hide, but there was no place to hide"), expressed deep distaste at such new dance crazes as the twist ("Simply obscenities, some sort of frenzy, the devil knows what"), and turned on the painters and sculptors with undisguised fury. Some, he roared, seek inspiration in "rubbish heaps and stinking latrines," or "present people in an intentionally ugly aspect." Such a man was Ernest Neizvestny, a sculptor who has recently won wide acclaim in Moscow's art world with his provocative works...
Divorced. By Peggy Ann Garner, 31, onetime child star who grew up and out of fame: Albert Salmi, 35, blond screen and TV actor; on grounds of mental cruelty (she testified that their continuing argument over whether to live in Hollywood or New York caused her to twist her neck violently and develop a thyroid condition); after nearly seven years of marriage, one child; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Tamiko, while obviously oriented toward afternoon audiences, occidentally manages to give an up-to-date twist to a story that was old when David Belasco wrote Madame Butterfly...