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Both men do better in their own special courses, Elliott in the British Empire and in "The Principles of Popular Government"--a pretty easy theory course for those who shun Professor Freidrich's monster...
...first to last, Champion is a tough-minded, penetrating character study which makes Midge neither an inhuman monster nor a whining victim of circumstances. It simply focuses a hard glare on his unreflective brutality, his arrogance and his bursts of self-interested decency. Much of its punch comes from the sensitive performances of Arthur Kennedy and Paul Stewart. Its final wallop it owes to Kirk Douglas, who fills out every corner of Kelly's unattractive pug with bulging assurance and conviction...
Benevolent Boy Frog. Diego himself is a benevolent monster, six feet tall and weighing close to 250 pounds. No two people, seeing him for the first time, would be likely to describe him in the same way, but Rivera's wife, Surrealist Frida Kahlo, an accomplished painter in her own right, has pictured him as he seems to her. In a chapter written for a forthcoming book, Diego Rivera: 50 Years of His Work, she says: "Looking at Diego . . . you immediately think of a boy frog standing on his hind legs. His skin is greenish white, like that...
...Look enters its second week this afternoon. At 12 a.m. last Friday, a monster strode into 14 Plympton Street. Late Sunday night it belched a cloud of black smoke and omitted the first picture engraved on the premises over run by the CRIMSON...
Next night, the Haitian government angrily broadcast a reply to "that unnatural Haitian, that degenerate criminal, that monster of unfilial sentiment, that anti-patriot." By his broadcast and by "seeking refuge in enemy territory," Roland had proved that he was a conspirator. But just for the record, the government quoted from incriminating correspondence it had found in Roland's secret files. What would Roland say to that...