Word: artlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artless, flailing swinger, he learned his trade in tough Utah mining towns; as a professional, he won his 55 fights (v. 4 losses) over a twelve-year career simply by wading in, accepting three punches for the chance to land one roundhouse of his own. "I don't have any particular ability," he admitted. "I rely on condition." But the punishment he took showed in his ravaged face-the cauliflowered ears, the network of tiny scars across his forehead and cheeks, the huge mounds of scar tissue that bulged above his eyes...
...condones over-baked Message Films, and no one wants to have his opinions manipulated. But is this negative, chaotic response the real alternative to artless naivete or subliminal sophistication? The critics have answered with a happy...
...qualities and interplay of voices. Whispers hissed above brisk utterances, and the sound swelled to an offensive cacophony which subsided with "love's a pool of blood/and death a soaring sparrow." The jerky rhythms were tedious and the sounds at times quite unpleasant. Use of total control in so artless a fashion shows just why the school of spontaneity has rebelled from fixed musical organization...
...Soviet Trade Fair in Tokyo's huge, domed exhibition hall on the Harumi waterfront. The fair was jammed with 9,000 examples of Soviet products, from tractors to Armenian rugs (cooed Armenia-born Mikoyan: "My mother used to make such rugs"). It was also outfitted with an artless array of Soviet propaganda, from pictures of Spacemen Gagarin and Titov to such slogans as "Soviet Union takes the lead in banning nuclear weapons," and "Hiroshima must not be repeated." Despite all this, the most popular spot in the hot, humid hall was a booth selling Coca Cola...
Rather than a malted, Shirley is really a marm-a frustrated, febrile virgin teaching a grist of young Maoris in New Zealand, the homeland of Author Sylvia Ashton-Warner, on whose literary masterpiece, Spinster, the film is based-or, better, grounded. For all that was artless power, poetry and humor in the book is now arty, prosy and plodding...