Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Following the Grand New Party's Grand New March last Tuesday was the "Elephant Hunt." By way of introduction, the toastmaster explained the difficulties of finding a new symbol to replace the twenty-year-old cartoonists' version of an elephant looking back on its laurels of yesterday. Three women and a man, dressed like African hunters, and equipped with ping-pong ball guns, then stalked onto the stage to the beat of jungle drums. The man grappled with the microphone which barely reached his chin and informed the party workers that they were starting on an elephant hunt, but that...
...problem of absolute Good and Evil has again come to Boston, this time in a cops-and-robbers version which is likely to have a good deal more popular appeal than either "Billy Budd" or "Darkness at Noon. William Wyler's film production of "Detective Story" is a fast-moving, realistic treatment of personal tragedy, the tragedy of a public servant whose obsessive hatred of evil is carried into his private life and at length wrecks...
...Detective Story" still has veiled analogies to the police state, a social problem which was strongly stressed in the Broadway version. The fact that personal tragedy is given clear precedence in the film production makes it a bit difficult to follow the shreds of comment that remain on human rights, but it is an issue which is just as well left...
...Place in the Sun. Producer-Director George Stevens' masterly version of Dreiser's An American Tragedy; with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, Shelley Winters (TIME, Sept...
...leaves in strips, like seaweeds, and these too glistened with oil, as though the girls had come out of the sea. Around their waists, to the knee, they wore leaf-clothes, or lava-lavas . . . They swayed about, clapped their hands, shoulders, legs." Later, Adams was introduced to a local version of the striptease called the pai-pai: "In the pai-pai, the women let their lava-lavas . . . or siapas seem about to fall. The dancer pretends to tighten it, but only opens it so as to show a little more thigh, and fastens it again so low as to show...