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...that there would be a short rehearsal before the performance. As we peered around noticing the height of the ceiling and tying to find the house through the procession of curtains, a young girl dressed in a fluffy peasant costume with a white apron stood up against a tall upright packing crate doing exercises. Her legs swung as if they were pendlums. Now one way, now the other, taking no regard for her anatomical structure. Pretty soon other dancers appeared through the wings like small fairies. They embraced one another, then held an arm or waist while their partners stretched...
...airplane is making its getaway. This figure is secret too, but if air resistance is ignored, a bomb tossed upward at 750 ft. per second will rise for about 23 seconds and fall for about the same time. This will give the airplane 46 seconds to turn itself upright and streak for safety before the bomb explodes...
...also gives a merited big chance to Actor Paul Newman, 31. who seemed doomed to walk forever in the shadow of Marlon Brando. Newman is still chock full of Brando mannerisms-the animal clumsiness,'mumbled speech and hunched shoulders-and he shambles through his scenes as precariously upright as a dancing bear. But there is strength in everything he does, and his occasional tenderness with wife Pier Angeli or his racked mother (Eileen Heckart) is as compelling as his berserk rage against strangers...
President Ibáñez, at 78, is still stern, upright and tempestuous. The son of a wealthy landowner, he early learned to sit a horse and boss his father's peons. The landowning politicians of Chile's 19th century- Conservatives who disputed for power with equally conservative Liberals- molded his beliefs to the right. The Chilean cavalry gave him a passion for humorless order; Chileans say that once, for reasons of pure esthetic tidiness, he made a tall clarinetist in a military band trade instruments with a short trombonist...
...career. The exhibition stretched back to the time when Pollock was imitating imitations of Picasso, reached a climax with the year 1948, when Pollock first conceived the idea of dripping and sloshing paint from buckets onto vast canvases laid flat on the floor. Once the canvases were hung upright, what gravity had accomplished came to look like the outpouring of Herculean energy. Pollock had invented a new kind of decoration, astonishingly vehement...