Word: apollos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...METAMORPHOSES or APOLLO traces scores of stylistic influences, such as that of classical Greek sculptures on Indian Buddhas. To Malraux, style is all-important: "Painting centers much less on seeing the 'real world' than on making of it another world; all things visible, serve style, and style serves man and his gods...
...Congressman had no West Point vacancies at the time, gave Radford a chance to go to Annapolis instead. As a midshipman, "Raddie" was a better-than-average student, graduated at 20 (class of '16), and was described in the Academy yearbook, Lucky Bag, as a "pink-cheeked Apollo...
...Director George (A Place in the Sun) Stevens. One of Hollywood's most painstaking craftsmen, Stevens for the first time has turned his individualistic director's talents to a western-and with striking results. From the opening shot in which buckskin-clad Shane, a sort of blond Apollo of the plains, rides into view on a roan horse, the film is marked by the kind of distinctive, richly detailed picture-making that is scarcely ever lavished on the most high-toned movie drama, let alone a western...
...painter describes his Vaudeville as "my memories of the Apollo Theater at 125th Street . . . real vaudeville ... I wasn't thinking of any particular act. The decorated panel behind? I never saw it; I made it up. You can't just put together things you've seen. I wanted a staccato-type thing- raw, sharp, rough- that's what I tried...
...Past. "And after calumniating the greatest masterpieces, they dare couple their obscure names with those of our supreme masters . . . What would sculptors say if a mason undertook to cut away some marble from the Venus de Milo to give her a wasp waist, or if one tried to twist Apollo's nose in order to give him more character?" The first thing to do was to remove the overstuffed romantic upholstery from the original music. The second was to rediscover the true harpsichord in place of the "little gavotte players, toys for wealthy amateurs" constructed at the turn...