Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ending above the elbow, her right leg ended above the knee, and the left was malformed, ending in a clubfoot. Left motherless at four, Anne got tireless encouragement from her father, an elder sister and four brothers. On a coaster wagon she learned to take part in a modified version of baseball. At eight she was pronounced ready for school, but only after a psychologist had gone over her and solemnly pronounced her "educable." Anne raced through two grades a year...
This particular version of Mont Saint-Victoire just approaches being over-labored, a flaw to which Cezanne was susceptible. Nevertheless, he stopped in the nick of time. A living spontaneity illuminates this painting. For that matter, two small canvases, a portrait of the artist's son, and a bather, are fresher still and the more marvelous...
Imitation of Life (Universal-International), after a quarter century in Hollywood's root cellar (the first film version of this Fannie Hurst bestseller was released in 1934), is still a potent onion. When passed before the moviegoer's eyes, it may force theater owners to install aisle scuppers to drain off the tears...
...going up and up and up," cries Lana Turner, who plays the Claudette Colbert part in this version, "and nobody's going to pull me down." Sadly her admirer (John Gavin) slouches away, and Lana goes up and up and up until she finds herself in a penthouse with a famous playwright (Dan O'Herlihy), and all of Manhattan at her feet-in Eastman Color. How happy she seems, but how miserable she really is. "Something,'' the heroine sighs, "is missing." Certainly not one soap-opera cliche is missing...
...pays a visit to a planetarium, which the gang decides to make the scene for a little action. Buzzy, stereotyped black-jacketed levi leader of the mob, goads Jim into a switchblade duel. (Stark has a paranoic aversion to being called "chicken") But merely proving himself in this daytime version of kicks is not enough; society demands more...