Word: artsyness
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Modesty Blaise, based loosely on the adventures of a British comic-strip heroine, presumably intends to poke fun at the James Bond school of chic, sexy savagery. The damage done to the chosen target is negligible, but this parroty parody adds up to a near disaster. Assuming a knowing superiority...
Sir: I take issue with the fatuous bit of anti-intellectualism expressed by Dean May of Yale about the corrupting influence of research scholars. Little wonder that first-rate science education makes little headway when the artsy-tartsy group controls many deaneries. When will some members of the academic establishment...
Under a pretentiously artsy façade, Newley slams the audience with a symbol as if it were a clown's pig bladder. Cocky is pitted against an autocratic upper-class fat cat in a dented top hat named Sir (Cyril Ritchard). Sir makes the rules for the Game...
Despite her undimmable presence, however, the company can stand alone, and in proof of that, Rabb and three other troupe members, not including Miss Harris, performed the hour-long "Don Juan in Hell" scene from Man and Superman last week for TV's non-network Esso Repertory Theater. The...
The plain fact is that real people in the real world beyond the bricks and ivy accept domestic life for what it is--an intriguing conglomerate of dirt, dishes, diapers and love. (Sorry, maybe that last was a bit too strong.) Even I, though not as cranial or artsy-craftsy...