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Shot 2?Diego Rivera's art is not revolutionary because it fails to portray the Communist ideal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Honor Among Revolutionaries | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

...That picture would have to include motion-picture and sound effects, too-the flopping, pointless efforts of the injured to stand up; the queer, grunting noises; the steady, panting, groaning of a human being with pain creeping up on him as the shock wears off. It should portray the slack expression on the face of a man, drugged with shock, staring at the Z-twist in his broken leg, the insane crumpled effect of a child's body after its bones are crushed inward, a realistic portrait of an hysterical woman with her screaming mouth opening a hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Blood & Agony | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

Author Fessier piles Pelion on Ossa by declaring, at the end of his little old book: "The characters and situations in this work are wholly fictional and imaginative, and do not portray and are not intended to portray any actual persons or parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tough Fairytale | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

Congratulations! TIME scores again. ... I have read reviews of the Silver Jubilee and the biography of George V in a number of magazines-but TIME'S account tops them all. As a former Canadian, I can say that you truthfully portray His Majesty as neither showman, dictator nor demagog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...Life is bound by no censorship, so why should the stage, which attempts to portray life, be censored?" Tallulah Bankhead, interviewed last night at the Plymouth Theatre, was giving her opinion of the move to "clean up the stage and screen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tallulah Bankhead Says Censoring of Films Silly as Trying to Outlaw Gin | 4/25/1935 | See Source »

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