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...pricked the bubbles he blew, fastening on the frivolous, pompous and stupid personalities inside the fine clothes of his noble sitters. Like the naked emperor of the fable, they seemed not to notice. Charles IV made him court painter and gave him a carriage. Occasionally Goya was commissioned to portray a beautiful woman, which enabled him to exhibit a warmer side. Friends who sat for him got off lightly; he could still admire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Steep Path | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

...world did you ever manage to find so many apparently breastless beauties to put into one story? For heaven's sake, let's portray more women who look like women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 23, 1955 | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

Typical of this naivete is Mike Mann's story of a high-school tennis player and his girl. Mann withholds few details of malt-shop and classroom courtship and consequently manages to portray a few scenes and feelings in high school life rather accurately. Mann's autobiography, however, begins to drool a little at the mouth; if he had left out much of the diary-writing at the end, he might have seemed much less involved and his story might have had more punch...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Freshman Review | 5/18/1955 | See Source »

...weakest point of the film. Sabu, who plays a young prince caught between the machinations of the villain and the colonials, was a boy when the picture was made and could creditably show the workings of a fourteen-year-old. Massey, on the other hand, does not portray the subtle mentality of an Indian. As someone in the movie says, he is only another gangster...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Drum | 4/13/1955 | See Source »

...women chosen for the work who are unable to pay their own way. Clearly a mission designed to interpret the United States to London's East-Enders should not be composed exclusively of young people from families in the upper income brackets. As it is, hate--America propagandists portray our country to this group as a nation of millionaires, and a sprinkling of scholarship Winants is needed to refute this claim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WIN ANT VOLUNTEERS | 3/2/1955 | See Source »

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