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Defenders of photography as a true art form retort that no work of art is possible without, to some extent, copying outside models, or without the intervention of some accident-the chance ray of light on a sitter, the stray bit of dialogue overheard in the street. The photographer uses his artistic imagination by choosing his subject, by lighting and posing it, by emphasizing some details and cutting out others. But photographers are forever haunted by the technical ease with which they can reproduce reality. Almost since photography began, they have been alternating between the "fever of reality" and cold...
...they got past a guarded barrier ten miles out of Mecca, no one knew, but once inside the holy city, they escaped detection for a while in the dense throngs of pilgrims. When they tried to find their way out to Jidda, they were overheard speaking English, and Saudi soldiers pounced. The trespassers were taken to Jidda and thrown into a fly-infested jail. There they still languished last week. They had been fined about $1,200 each and sentenced to six months...
Kreis puts out a monthly magazine, Chatter, which chronicles the doings of its customers. Samples: "Never noticed before what beautiful blue eyes Peter Lawford has," "Betty Grable snackihg and poring over a racing form." "Overheard George Raft telling friends that the cherry burgundy ice cream is the best in the world." Chatter also carries movie reviews, beauty hints and signed columns by the soda jerks, pharmacists, cashiers, kitchen help...
...distraction the Italian Fascists who came in as members of the armistice commission. In order to persuade the Italians that they needed bodyguards, Navarre's hommes lourds (heavy men) clubbed and beat up the Italians in the dark. Navarre installed microphones in the Fascists' telephones and overheard their most confidential plans...
...playing her game, Shirley was also practicing the two rules that still guide her career: 1) "Actors should be overheard, not listened to," and 2) "The audience is 50% of the performance." Shirley Booth without an audience is as improbable as an Easter Parade without hats. She prefers to do her stuff before rapt thousands, but will give just as intense a performance for an audience of one. Her first husband, Radio Comedian Ed Gardner, says that Shirley is always acting, on stage and off: "She sincerely believes in her self-cast roles. One day she would be a grande...