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Between shows and trips to the studio, Toni likes to skip rope, ride bicycles, and listen to the Lone Ranger. She is not much impressed by her singing and is cool when her father insists on playing her records for visitors ("I just like to sing. It sounds pretty to me, that's all"). At school, where she always gets As or Bs, no one else is much impressed either. Since she tends to syncopate even her school songs, her teachers don't ask her to sing solo. But Toni doesn't care. "School songs," says...
...subject is asked for his reaction to certain pictures. Among the ten pictures used by S.R.I.: a boy, leaning on his chin, contemplating a violin and bow; a boy and a woman in conversation; a boy at a window looking up into the sky; a man on a rope...
Typical reaction of those who flunk the rope picture test: the man is climbing down the rope. (Successful executives usually say he is climbing up.) The boy and woman picture is actually a test of aggressiveness, in which likely subjects see a boy leaving home no matter what his mother says. Less promising subjects see him waiting for her decision, or accepting her command to stay home. The reactions to S.R.I.'s pictures also give clues to such considerations as whether a subject becomes confused or lost in detail (a bad sign), and how active his imagination...
Everything about The Pearl is done with tenderness and devotion, and is moving because of that. Now & then-during the breath-stopping dive for the pearl, the flight across the swamp, or a hair-raising moment when a scorpion crawls down a rope towards the baby-the picture comes fully and fiercely to life. But too often the film's makers confused genuine artistry (which requires a clear, tough sense of reality) with the woozily "artistic...
Understander. In Baltimore, George L. Jones ran to help at a fire, was treated for back injuries after he was landed on by: 1) Mrs. Calvin Muller, who fell off a rope; 2) Mary Paddy, who fell from a third-story window; 3) Calvin Muller, who fell from a second-story window...