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This week, in the heavily guarded prisoner's dock, Ahmed's prospects looked a little bleak. The government wanted to make an example of the rioters who had driven away foreign businessmen and almost ruined Cairo. But no one was selling Hussein short. He knew a lot of important people and he knew a lot about them...
Among the bleak, soot-smudged buildings in Paris' Malakoff suburb, one small factory shines out like a beacon. Its neat brick walls are covered with vines; the windows are immaculately clean. Inside the red iron gate there is a courtyard filled with bronze statues. Plump Renoir and Maillol nudes stand side by side with muscular Bourdelle torsos, Rodin figures, and a host of lesserworks. On most of the statues, two names are inscribed. The first is the sculptor's; the second is that of the man who turned it into bronze, Eugene Rudier, the foundry...
Better than anything else in A Long Memory is the fine evocation of place, and the descriptions of the bleak lower depths of river life. In Thus Am I Slayn (TIME, April 5, 1948), Author Clewes flashed his talent but failed to make his meanings clear. In this book his pitch is plain. But it is possible to praise him and still raise the question that a lot of gifted minor English writers prompt: Why doesn't he tackle something bigger...
...pillow, a tavern jukebox. "Anything can be beautiful if you bother to see its beauty," says Fosburgh. "Even a hamper can be a vision of the world." He makes a handsome still life from a pair of discarded work gloves or a coffee cup, a romantic landscape from the bleak hangars and dingy flats of La Guardia Airport seen across turgid Flushing...
Oneto pictures sometimes have a slick, posterish quality, rely too often on monotonous tricks of contrast for their dramatic effect. But at their best, as in his bleak Two Houses, they catch a lot of the mystery and melancholy of U.S. cities in the small hours...