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...movie's photography is sensitive, catching in flutter of light and shade the fluttering mood of grace and despair. As the priest, Actor Claude Laydu wears a beautiful mask of spirituality but seems to have no idea how to suggest what is going on beneath the mask; though it is only fair to admit that few actors could have done better with so exacting a part. The main trouble with the picture is its failure to transmute the superb language of the book into equivalent images. Beautiful but difficult quotations keep appearing through the blur of pictures, like...
Over the past six months, the watch over Gouzenko became almost totally unworkable. With his new book, The Fall of a Titan, about to be published, the publicity-conscious author began to set up interviews and to pose for photos wearing a pillowcase mask. Usually he slipped away to the interviews, giving the Mount ies no opportunity to screen his visitors. Said a government official: "Each guy he met could have been Malenkov himself for all we knew...
Although the Lawrence School portrait, of doubtful authorship, fairly approximates the features of Keats's death mask, the most famous studies are those by Keats's great friend, Artist Joseph Severn. Severn nursed Keats through his last illness. His faithfulness to the dying poet, in fact, made him a big name in the art world, and his paintings sold like hot cakes for 20 years afterward...
After Britain's New Statesman and Nation waggishly caricatured her in drawing and word ("Queen Edith [whose] mask is elaborate . . . eye-sockets . . . thumbed by a master") and accused her of "riding the elephant of publicity in Hollywood," cadaverous Poetess Edith (Faqade) Sitwell, like a glacier overriding a grounded gnat, coolly crushed the New Statesman's slurs. Her letter to the editor: "I cannot see that . . . my appearance and personality are the affair of any but my personal acquaintances . . . They are not, as [your correspondent] suggests, an 'achievement' but are . . . inherited. I am not descended from...
...novel and its film adaptation have enjoyed a hardy popularity. Like most Victorian novels, Charlotte Bronte's book is a thinly-disguised social criticism with its target religious bigotry and self-righteousness. Miss Bronte was indeed indignant, and once described her novel as an attempt "to pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee." In true Dickens' fashion, she wrote about insufferable aunts, cruel schoolmasters, and orphans' asylums, and made them all as black as the corridors of Thornfield. But she added to her novel a vivid sense of melodrama, replete with thunderstorms, dark castles, and voices drifting across...