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...some 130 British soldiers stationed at a remote mission called Rorke's Drift successfully withstood an attack by 4,000 Zulus. The South African government, eager to see new Hollywoods springing up out of the veld, is earnestly cooperating. It has supplied soldiers, giraffes, prop men, leopards, spears-everything but phalaropes. Director Cy Enfield also called on Dinizulu, paramount chief of the Zulus, and Dinizulu came through with 4,000 of his finest, plus a faultless selection of his most nubile maidens for a bare-breasted scene in which the Zulu warriors on the eve of battle are given...
...with all the master rebels of their day-men who were churning up the rules of perspective, blasting out the innards of form, melting down the image to unrecognizable shapes. Manhattan's Leonard Hutton Galleries has restaged those days when the manifesto in capital letters was a standard prop of the art world...
Antrobus, educated at Sandhurst, is the sensible partner who takes on the practical problems of the production, such as settling with the unions the question of whether the parrot is an actor or a prop. Milligan, a 45-year-old Irishman born in India, has his head in electric clouds. "It's the end of the bike," he glooms. "Fin de cycle." He has lots of other ideas about life after World War III-selling plots of sea, for example, because land is so expensive. The phone rings on his desk -and rings and rings and rings...
...sounds more like an anagram or a code phrase devised by aliens, vaguely but discernibly inventive. Her hair is naturally blonde, yet it is so impossibly pale, so much closer to moonlight than to anything found on any ordinary human head, that it seems the product of a prop department. Her complexion, clear as ice and the untroubled color of early dawn, hints of a makeup artist. Her eyes, too, momentarily blue, then grey, then aquamarine, then green, look to be explicable only if they are not eyes at all but varying sets of colored contact lenses. Everything about...
...another. Japan last year exported 135 million yds. of cloth to the U.S., but permitted U.S. imports of only 490.000 yds. The State Department resists imposing stiffer import quotas and tariffs because it does not want to damage the economies of nations that the U.S. is trying to prop up. When President Kennedy himself proposed an 8?-per-lb. tariff increase on imported cottons to win cotton-state support for his Trade Expansion Act, he was turned down by the usually compliant U.S. Tariff Commission. Since then, the Administration has vaguely proposed to subsidize domestic cotton buyers to the tune...