Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Akhnaton's reform died with him because the next pharaoh, Tutankhamen ("King Tut"), preferred flattery. The statues done of him have what Drioton calls "a delicate prettiness with sometimes a touch of romantic melancholy." Since the gods were customarily carved to resemble the reigning monarch, sculptors had to make them beautiful and blue, too. It got so that animals were the only subjects artists could treat freely...
Next day, traders decided that the more business A.T.&T. got, the more money it was likely to make. As the market, in characteristic perversity, rallied briskly, Telephone was bought as eagerly as it had been sold the day before. In the week's final session, the Dow-Jones industrial average hit an intraday high of 228.17, a new post-Korean high mark and only a hair below the bull market high last June. Like A.T.&T., Wall Street was still buzzing the busy signal...
...next year's bathing suits will be conservative (see cut). Cole has little but scorn for France's famed Bikini bathing suits. Explains he: "French girls, have short legs. Swimsuits have to be hiked up at the sides to make their legs look longer." Cole's new bathing suits, as form-fitting as ever, go in heavily for vertical patterns to help the wearer look slim. The brightest eye catcher on display was a lace & jersey suit sparkling with 24-karat gold. Price...
...delinquency. Sample dubious boost for the industry, from University of Illinois President George Stoddard: "There is little evidence that the motion picture has much effect upon the behavior of children. When a healthy high-school boy chooses to spend three hours on a sunny Saturday in a world of make-believe, the trouble is not with the motion picture but in the quality of home and neighborhood life...
Hollywood's major error may well lie in the effort to make the transfer at all. On the stage, Menagerie's human, uneventful little story was spun out like a dream in short, fragmentary scenes. Williams himself noted that it was "a memory play . . . dimly lighted . . . not realistic," and Broadway's highly stylized production caught the mood with music, transparent curtains, and shifting light and color...