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...people who objected to the standard grey chairs did so with great gusto. "Any color but grey!" wrote one girl. "The room is like a monk's cell," said another girl, reacting apparently to the rather crude and unfinished appearance of the room...
Then began a game of hide-and-seek with the Cuban navy. The refugees repainted the ship's grey deck a nonmilitary white, lettered a new name just below the mast. Up the mast they hoisted a homemade U.S. flag, stitched from fragments of blouses, skirts and underthings. It had 60 stars. "The more stars," said a woman, "the safer we thought we'd be." A Cuban patrol boat trailed the H-11, but bore off, apparently discouraged by the flag. The ship's water supply grew short; there were 100 tins of Russian meat aboard...
...balcony of the only stone house in the thatch-roofed Katangese village of Musongo last week, a middle-aged potentate stared dully as a dance troupe of local girls frantically undulated their hips before him to the rhythm of pounding drums. Slouched on a throne consisting of a grey army blanket thrown over a schoolroom chair, his feet resting on a leopard skin, the Lunda tribe's newly installed 25th Mwata Yambo (Great Chief) received the adulation of his people. His ascension is an interesting case history of the tribalism that is still deeply rooted in the Congo...
...Charlotte Salomon had studied art, and clearly had been impressed by the paintings of Edvard Munch-works with all the intellectual content of a scream. She painted in pursuit of self-abandonment-only to find that she had created a new world for herself in which she remained the grey onlooker, helpless to change the course of things but committed, all the same, to watch. From this she adopted her only moral: "I wish everyone I know the experience of suffering so that they are forced to find the way to their depths...
...away in the tremendous whirlwind of the spirit of the age they have wrung out of their hearts remarkable efforts of film. They have evolved through the last decade a vast pageant of heroic drama and gentle eclogue, of delectable gaiety and dispirited lust, of mordant wit, glittering intellect, grey despair, apocalyptic spectacle and somber religious depth. They have held the camera up to life and shown humanity a true and terrifying and yet somehow heartbreakingly beautiful image of itself. They have created a golden age of cinema...