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...banned when the Nazis bombed the theater opening night, but Spiegel ran a series of private screenings for Reichstag members and Nazi Leaders Hitler, Goebbels, and Goring. Over the Nazis' protests, the ban was lifted. But when Hitler came to power in 1933, Spiegel thought it best to flee to Vienna. Six years later, he returned to Hollywood with an idea for casting a picture with nothing but stars. Tales of Manhattan had nothing but stars to its credit...
...carries on the correspondence for months: "Dear Sir: As I usually do not answer letters sent to me by fans, since I get (crossed out) receive thousands, I would appreciate your keeping this note confidential . . ." Finally they meet, understand how they have duped each other and themselves, and flee shrieking in opposite directions...
...question mark, as usual, was the slippery Tshombe. As the week began, he was holed up defiantly in Kolwezi with the mercenaries. There were rumors that he might flee to Europe rather than give in to the U.N. But he was not surrendering Katanga's top job. Lo and behold, he was back in Elisabethville. "in spite of all the trouble and bloodshed," he declared with MacArthurian grandeur, "I am back." What policy would he follow? No one could say, for before long he was bouncing wildly from one position to another. "Pure India rubber," marveled a foreign diplomat...
...Cell. When Munch began painting, the great new movement was impressionism. Though Munch admired and benefited from this exploration into the mysteries of light, he himself was concerned with "shadows and movements, such shadows as a prisoner sees in his cell, those curious grey streaks of shadows which flee and then return, which slide apart and come together again like fans, bending, curving, dividing." In almost all his canvases there is such tension and vibration that even a bright landscape like Midsummer Night (see color) seems about ready to disintegrate into tragedy. For Munch, nature was filled with menace...
Escape then, to that place where the essence of Christmas is thriving noisily. Flee en masse to the joyous, crowded, festooned fifth floor of Jordan Marsh. Santa Claus himself is there...