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...Unwound in Technicolor flashbacks from the graveside of the heroine (Ava Gardner), the story has a few startlingly good lines and situations-and several embarrassingly bad ones. Ava is a slum-bred flamenco dancer in Madrid when a tyrannical millionaire turned moviemaker (Warren Stevens) shows up with his slavish pressagent (Edmond O'Brien) to look and maybe to buy. But Ava, no easy mark, will have none of it until the millionaire's cynical, broken-down director (Humphrey...
...papers and fan magazines that I must be an odd ball . . . be cause I don't visit my wife on the set. Now that I'm here, everyone looks at me and asks, 'How come?' " At last, the cameras rolled briefly while Marilyn unwound her hips and silently mouthed the words of the song. Then she dashed over to Joe and chirped: "Thanks for coming, dear. I hope you liked it." Sighed Joe huskily: "I liked what I saw, baby. But it takes too long to see so little...
Museum of Modern Art, still another kind of composition for tape recorder was unwound: Low Speed, Invention and Fantasy in Space by Otto Luening and Sonic Contours by Vladimir Ussachevsky. Out of the loudspeaker came the sound of a flute-but a flute that could growl like a bassoon, or thunder like the trump of doom, as well as chirp like a bird-and the sound of a piano that seemed to accompany itself with organ tones. Haunting both instruments was a maze of echoes and pulsing overtones...
Apparently Biology Professor Luyet has no such philosophical worries. To him, a dehydrated organism is deprived of activity but is still potentially alive, "like a watch that has unwound." No such worries are deterring his superiors either. They have appointed Father Luyet director of the university's new Institute of Biophysics. And last week they were busy remodeling his laboratories. But neither the promotion nor the excitement in his laboratory was keeping Father Luyet from his strenuous routine. On the startling implications of his work he has only one comment: "I am only trying to communicate to others...
...sores on the record of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, still being disclosed as the bandages are unwound...