Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Grimm illustrations brought Rackham, who died in 1939, his first great success. But he went on to do nearly everything from Scrooge to Cinderella, from The Sleeping Beauty to The Wind in the Willows. Rackham's gnarled giants, dark woods and pallid, feathery Edwardian maidens still compel-and...
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER illustrated by Peter Spier. Unpaged. Doubleday. $5.95. Author-Illustrator Spier, 46, an academy-trained artist who grew up in Holland and migrated to the U.S. in 1952, is one of the finest creators of children's books alive. He researches historic subjects (The Erie Canal...
All that we know about Mons Herbert (who does not appear in the musical) is that he was once given a compliment by Harpo Marx as having "a dazzling mouthful of gold." Aside from any curiosity over the title, he is all but forgotten until the last line. Then the...
Here is a cautionary tale of the future with none of the usual trappings of science fiction: no oozing monsters, no batteries of blinking, beeping machinery. Instead, we have a very deliberate and closely controlled film graced with a slow, severe beauty that makes its quiet edge of panic all...
Plowden's cumulative point seems to be that carelessness and mobility have become the great American characteristics at the expense of beauty, permanence, humanity. He sums up his attitudes in a picture of the Statue of Liberty with its back turned on a desolate scene in Jersey City.