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...cast really stand out. Pippa Scott, playing Frytania, is the Tallulah Bankhead of Bad Fairies, angular and wicked, with a fearsome bit of makeup to suit her evil soul. Slugging it out with the Bad Fairly is Weady Robertson as Beauty, who is the apogee of sweetness and light. Miss Robertson is marvelous in an extremely difficult part, since it is so much more difficult to portray Good than Evil...
Over the last 20 years, some 40 of Zurbaran's paintings have come to light. His best are flat, angular studies of lean-jawed monks; even his paintings of women seem chopped out with a chisel. Depth and perspective interested him little. One of his finest, St. Serapion, is in the Wadsworth Atheneum at Hartford, Conn...
After Boymans officials recovered from their surprise, they concluded that the second picture, painted right onto the wooden backing of the painting in front, was by the same artist (the shadowing, the angular folds of the robes, the grim expression of St. Peter's face were as legible as any signature). Experts guessed that the double picture was originally part of one altar panel...
...Catholics, and for them religion is important. I will try to make a good thing that will serve them." Bishop Mousinho had grave doubts at first: not only was Portinari a Communist; in 1946 he had painted some murals for a church at Pampulha full of such strange, angular distortions that the church refused to consecrate the building...
Percentage Player. Unlike most of basketball's angular skyscrapers, who have trouble getting out of their own way, Dukes is both agile and graceful. He does not depend on height alone. Against another tall man, Dukes's sleight-of-hand artistry-he shoots equally well with both hands-often feints the defensive man completely out of position. As a defensive "rebounder," i.e., grabbing the ball off the backboards. Dukes takes advantage of both his height and cat-quick reflexes...