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...whom he stared fixedly, than to Desdemona. The Bronx's burly Leonard Warren couldn't have sung the role of lago with more splendor and imagination-or acted it with less. Soprano Licia Albanese, in her first Met Desdemona, was fine in her lyrical moments in the Willow Song and the magnificent Ave Maria; but as a dramatic soprano, she lacked enough voltage to electrify the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Curtain Up in New York | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...fall have brought the chilling news to student car-owners that local police are evidently resolved to crack down on all-night parking in city streets. Armed with a spanking new ordinance, officers are ready to haul away offending vehicles faster than Henry Kaiser can turn them out at Willow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Parking | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

Social Security. Under the weeping willow trees outside, Hoover sat down with state functionaries to an Iowa lunch of fried chicken, corn on the cob and a huge birthday cake, while spectators gawked from beyond the low fence. He visited the old Quaker cemetery, where some dozen Hoovers are buried under the red cedars, and for a long moment stood with his head bowed before the grave of his father and mother. On a platform looking out over sun-splashed fields of the finest corn in lowans' memory, Hoover spoke. He recalled leaving West Branch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IOWA: Not a Dream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Under the Willows. From Tiehling to Hsinmin it is two days, via Mukden, where, as refugees note, "faces are bitter and prices even higher than in Changchun." At Hsinmin the Nationalist lines end again. South of that rail city lies the most terrible san-pu-kuan stretch of all, the notorious Liu Ho Ko, or Willow River Ditch. This no man's land belongs to bandits who dress in yellow jackets and black pants, carry white knapsacks and oiled-paper umbrellas. They lie in wait along a willow-lined ditch, jump up with drawn revolvers, shout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: 30,000,000 Uprooted Ones | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...screen, and by this device, Olivier sometimes even manages to enhance the language. Ophelia's description of Hamlet's "madness" (As I was sewing in my closet) gives the two of them a lovely passage of pantomime, never played before. Ophelia's drowning (There is a willow grows aslant a brook) is derived from the Millais painting, and improves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Olivier's Hamlet | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

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