Word: lying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masked; it is only when he climbs into bed with his wife that he strips off his satanic guise and lets the audience in on his secret: he is really a good man with a perfectly normal voice, forced by poverty into becoming a "ridiculous vagabond, living a lie." Inevitably, the charlatans' show ends in disaster, but the magician gets his revenge: he plays dead and, in a sequence eerie as a Kafka nightmare, torments a doctor who wants to dissect him. And at film's end, after numbing humiliations, the troupe is invited to perform for Sweden...
...week's end nine persons were known dead. It would be days or weeks before anyone knew how many others might lie buried beneath the 150-350 ft. of fallen rock. But the American Red Cross, compiling a list based on reports from relatives and friends, said at least 1,500 were known to have been in the area who have not reappeared...
...join them but have been wary since Tibet, the Reds were unable to fill the streets with raging thousands, could muster on successive days only a few hundred, who were carted off to jail still waving red flags and shouting slogans. Communist agitators pleaded with the onlooking crowds to lie in the streets in passive resistance, but won no volunteers...
...MASTERPIECE need not lie behind locked doors to be effectively hidden from the public at large. The Laughing Child, one of Frans Hals's most engaging pictures, hangs on public view the year round in Cincinnati's Taft Museum. The museum in itself is a small masterpiece of selection and display, should be a mecca for the entire Midwest -yet only about 100 people visit it on an average day. (Out-of-towners automatically head for the more famed Cincinnati Art Museum instead...
...biggest box-office catch since The Ten Commandments, despite the fact that it has all the vices and almost none of the homely virtues of the Lloyd C. Douglas novel that inspired it. For oldtime Moviemaker Rowland V. Lee (The Count of Monte Cristo) knows just where the millions lie: in fictionalized history, resplendently costumed, sexed up, and heavily flavored with religion. There are sumptuous orgies in palaces that look like the new banks of Beverly Hills; John the Baptist is beheaded in 70-mm. Panavision, color and stereophonic sound; and "the temptress" (Martha Hyer) moves about murmuring to Herod...