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Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thief (1949) typifies the post-war Italian film of realism; it shows simple, poor people enmeshed in an uncomplicated but terrifying trap. Unemployment, hunger and injustice close in on Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani); he commits an unsuccessful robbery and the film ends on a note of despair...
Sitting in the back seat of the Humphrey limousine, he photographed the human details of the campaign. Just as a technical feat, this scene is unique, but it also constitutes a new high in realism and composition. While the senator and his party talk, Leacock scans the Wisconsin countryside through the rainswept windshield. Humphrey speaks glowingly about the state's rich land, but the camera takes in nothing but dreary rocks and gullies...
...China debate had the floor last week at the U.N. General Assembly. With their motives ranging from fellow-Communism to "realism," in favor of seating Red China were: Cuba, the Eastern European satellites, Yugoslavia, U.A.R., Sweden, Ceylon, Indonesia, Ghana and Burma. But some states were troubled. Nigeria's Jaja Wachuku could not accept the expulsion of Nationalist China as a "condition" for the admission of Red China, since the Nationalist government "has under it 11 million people" and is a U.S. ally, so that any attempt to conquer it could lead to a threat of war. Wachuku also noted...
...wanted to be a fashion artist. One day at Central Park zoo, a fellow student drew an animal with a moving expression of fear that in an instant turned Ruth Gikow from aspiring commercial artist to aspiring fine artist. The new goal was elusive. She turned from social realism to semi-abstractionism, but she still felt restive. "It seemed as if everything I was doing was a façade, too decorative and too much on the surface. I wanted to get underneath things, to be more involved with individuals, and to get away from facelessness...
Bleak Notations. The hypocrisy of the code of socialist realism is equally repellent to Yesenin-Volpin. His Russia is one of pain ("The only beauty that I know"), drugs, suffering, alcoholism, prison; many of the poems in The Leaf of Spring (Praeger; $3) bear such bleak notations as Lubyanka, Karaganda and Prison of Chernovtsy-the jails, mental institutions and concentration camps where Yesenin-Volpin has spent most of his adult life...