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...multicolored marble, past statues and buttresses inscribed with Ataturk's maxims and bas-reliefs depicting his victories-until it halted at a 42-ton sarcophagus carved from a single block of red, black and white marble. The sarcophagus was lit only by the light from a huge wrought-iron window...
...uniforms Jimmy cleans) to a back-country peasant greets him with a smiling, "Allo, Jeemie!" Few Haitians can understand why a man as successful as Jimmy still works in his own plant. But, responding to Jimmy's affection for the country and grateful for the revolution he has wrought, the Haitian government has awarded him the National Order of Honor and Merit, grade of Knight...
...times the picture becomes overdramatic; at other times its philosophizing gets somewhat diffuse. But in Strange Deception, Malaparte has wrought a powerful, impassioned manhunt that is the product of genuine new screen talent. Undisturbed by some of the criticisms leveled against the picture-the Roman Catholic Church in Italy condemned it, and the Communists distributed handbills attacking it-Malaparte is now going ahead with his next film. It will be a movie version of Robinson Crusoe, which he plans to shoot this fall on the Juan Fernandez Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Chile, the scene of the actual...
...movie medium, the close-ups endow the scene in which Miss Waters sings a comforting hymn with a beauty which only the camera could capture. Yet even the close-ups sometimes betray the script, making, lines aimed at the balcony of a play house seem unnecessary and over-wrought...
...faced Journalist Paik Chung Muk, 38, is foreign-educated (Japan and Germany) and possessor of a biting intellectual intensity. Said he: "I read every work Harold Laski wrote. I worshiped him for years. Then I realized I was wrong. Now I am back on more solid ground." What had wrought the change? Paik downed the equivalent of half a jigger of Four Roses whisky from a cracked porcelain cup, chased it with a handful of warm pine nuts, and went on: "Many of my former friends are now with the Communists in the north. I almost went with them...