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Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
Sweet Smell of Success. A whiff of the rat-tat-tattle machinations of a poison-penned Broadway columnist and his hatchetman; with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis cracking whiplash dialogue (TIME, June...
...Whiplash. Explosively, furiously, he swept into this confused arena. Having struck out at General George C. Marshall ("a man so steeped in falsehood, who has recourse to the lie whenever it suits his convenience . . ."), he even prevailed upon Candidate Dwight Eisenhower to eliminate from a 1952 campaign speech in Milwaukee a paragraph defending Marshall...
...Germany. Joe swung again at Ike's Ambassador-designate to Russia, Charles E. Bohlen. He battled away against such respected party leaders as Bob Taft, demanded that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles be called to testify under oath on the Bohlen nomination. Here, Joe got the first whiplash of defeat. This proposal, said Bob Taft in measured tones, is ''ridiculous." It was soon afterward that Joe cast his lot irrevocably against his own party. In a stinging statement he lumped Ike's first year in office with those of his predecessors; now, he said...
Back in Bavaria, Winter's brush exploded with fireworks of color, recalling in whiplash lines the wartime echoes of barbed wire, bombed buildings, prison life. But Winter was not merely evoking the kind of turgid nightmare images that Painter George Grosz (TIME, Nov. 21) used to purge himself of his tortured World War I memories. In his abstractions, Winter feels that he is groping toward a universal language increasingly understood everywhere...