This statue frozenly leaps from a building on the road to the British Museum. Is that a very fancy jump rope or a very plain boa? “Her admirers — middle-aged men and clergymen — respond to her dubious coquetry, to the sight of her well-shaped and desirable little body, packed with enormous vitality, only because the safety curtain of story and dialogue drops between their intelligence and their desire.” — Graham Greene on Shirley Temple. 20th Century Fox brought a libel action against him for this published assertion and won.