Word: showings
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...whole world kin and guarantees moments of sympathetic laughter. But when hypochondria shifts to fancied heart disease, it is easier to be farcical than funny and the baby jokes get more and more unruly as the papa joke lies feebly wasting away. When at last sex gains admittance, the show takes on more life and produces some funny moments. But moments only; Send Me No Flowers, as a whole, is geared too low, pushed too hard and stretched...
...Sinclair-Gieben says his use of hypnosis to cure severe asthma does not necessarily show the ailment to be psychological in origin. Many asthma victims act sicker than they really are, but the Scottish patient was a "welladjusted individual" who displayed "no signs of psychiatric breakdown." Rather, says Sinclair-Gieben, it shows that hypnosis can exert a physical as well as psychological effect: "It is widely believed that conditions responding to hypnosis must of necessity be wholly psychologically determined. However, in other conditions-for example, organic pain and warts-it has been demonstrated that hypnosis can influence an accepted physical...
...like clouds with hooves. Sheep are also involved in the film's best sequence, a glorious piece of frontier humor in which Mitchum enters a shearing contest and takes a terrible licking from an 80-year-old man (Wylie Watson). Stone the crows if, on the whole, the show ain't square dinkum and everybody's cuppa...
Taken as a whole, Exodus is a terrific show. Director Preminger (The Man with the Golden Arm, Anatomy of a Murder) is at the top of his form in every department. Cinematography and cutting are impeccable, and the actors are masterfully maneuvered. But the fundamental strength of the film derives from a script that, when due allowance is made for the slovenly (though heartfelt) book on which it is based, seems an amazing achievement: clear, intelligent, subtle, witty, swift, strong, eloquent. Ironically, the script is bringing Hollywood embarrassment as well as riches. It is the work of a well-known...
Pure Force. In the current show hangs another Washington, which only hints at the figure, usually through quick, strong charcoal lines suggesting an arm, a torso, a head. Even his most realistic canvas, Last Civil War Veteran, hovers on the edge of abstraction, just as the old soldier himself hovers on the edge of death. In all the other paintings, Rivers has already become bored with subject matter. In a painting called United Nations, he uses stenciled letters, suggesting country-identifying name plates, to heighten the contrast of readymade reality and pure imagination. His Buick Painting with...