Word: voided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leonora Carrington struggled back over that precipice and still struggles to paint the visions that haunted her private void. Except for those visions, her present life is a model of domesticity. She lives with her two children and second husband (a news photographer) in an out-of-the-way house in Mexico City, strolling out once a day for the mail, and painting at night...
...House: "What goes on here?" He thought he spotted the man responsible for the anti-partition talk: Loy Henderson, chief of the State Department's Near East and African Division. He said that Henderson was "enthusiastic but misguided," and accused him of "intriguing behind the scenes to void decisions made on higher levels." For his known opposition to partition, Henderson had been the target for Zionist attacks before. But Celler's charge of "intriguing" was wide of the mark...
...Crosby-Hope-Lamour "Road" pictures, in the opinion of plenty of enthusiastic cinemaddicts, can lead anywhere and go on forever. Their comedy is more verbal than visual, but any kind of slapstick-one of cinema's lost arts-is rare these days. Because they fill some of the void, these loose-jointed spoof pictures at least guarantee a lot of good laughs...
...moviemakers have replaced this love story of tortured velleity with one of more baroque appeal-one scarcely, however, so recognizably Venetian, American, or, to name the spade, anything. Briefly, the movie niece (Susan Hayward) is young, has led a void life caring for the old lady (Agnes Moorehead), has compensated by poring over the poet's letters, has conceived a coy necrophilia for him. By day she is the cold spinster, by night ah! with her kitten and her finch and that sill ver oubliette which holds the letters (sweet counterfeits of passion!), she is indeed a very...
...realism, This Time Tomorrow is almost void of sense; as symbolism, it is by no means rich in suggestion. All cluttered up with blackouts, electrical storms, laboratory rats, hypnotic trances, scientific jargon and mystical plumage, it may, and then again may not, be deep; but there is no doubt whatever that it is dull...