Word: artlessness
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Each of the ten imaginary nightmares in Russell's new collection is a cute little fantasy, as impish as it is artless. Each turns around a point of topical interest and displays a sense of humor which even Punch might blanch at. Samples...
...Manhattan, antenna-mustached "Nuclear Mystic" Salvador Dali, who is as artless about his publicity as he is about his surrealist painting, made his way back to the front pages by slapping a $7,000 suit on one of his clients. The client: Ann Eden Crowell Woodward, who had commissioned a Dali portrait of herself, and then declined to pay when it was completed. Snapped husband William Woodward Jr., who recently inherited the Belair racing stable of his banker-sportsman father: "It is a heck of an unpleasant picture, [depicting Ann] sort of against a rock with shells around . . . sort...
...Unfortunately author Eugene O'Neill insisted on going beyond the circus, the soap opera and the spirit attendant to the School of Business Management, and when he does, his biting condemnation of souless materialism lacks teeth and interest. After a rather exciting first act, capped by Marco as an artless youth in the Khan's Grand Throne Room, the play's action gives way to generally boring dialogue which skillfully blends triteness and repetition...
Fond of her gentle mother, fearful of her bluff, cruel father, Helen Angus is romping through her teens with artless innocence when Ratoons begins. Then the hothouse climate brings her emotions to quick bloom; she falls in love with a half-Boer boy named Chris and soon is pregnant. Before she can nerve herself to tell anyone, Chris departs for the Boer War, and Helen's mother, herself pregnant, dies while giving birth to a puny boy. When the child dies, Helen's father substitutes Helen's illegitimate baby for his own Nicky...
...Have to Swing It (Ella Fitzgerald; Decca). The versatile Ella remakes one of Martha Raye's oldies ("Mr. Paganini, please play my rhapsody"), slips from sweet to husky to artless scat-singing without losing her solid beat...