Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fellow feels hurt speaking this way. Thou wert right, Horace: Painters have licence in everything. But do artists? One bit called, "Odalisque", a young girl reclining on a coach looks more like Steig's stuff, but no, it's another of Borges. Utrillo's contribution had best be called "four big hips going to grub" than "Auberge". And, gentle readers, if you see the "Magnetic Cultivation of Planets," in Paul Klee's little brain child then please come to the Vagabond's Tower. Rare souls are always welcome...
Longing for a bit of the rich aroma of old scholarship, yesterday we decided to browse. Forgetting things temporal in the stacks of Widener and the dust of decades, we pored over many a musty tome. Among our findings was an apocryphal edition of Gaius Suctonins Tranquillus' "Lives of the Twelve Caesars". There were portions of it where the nosy grandfather of all the columnists had become sillier than ever. To save his face generous moderns have cut his trash. But for the moment we resented our present-day cult of the important, and we reveled in triviala...
...Centaurs, who were brutal creatures, partly human, partly equine, were invited to the wedding of Pirithous, King of the Lapiths. There was great feasting--but the animal would out, and the Centaurs became inflamed with wine and began to lay hands on the women. Ordinarily we might get a bit disturbed about this, but no, for there stands Apollo in the center and being with a god we have nothing to fear. For that matter there's nothing to fear anyway--it's all in sculpture...
Alice said nothing and perhaps realized she had been just a bit sentimental over the whole affair...
...takes on a strong plug-ugly backed by the nefarious husband, and finally manages to clout him into a somnabulistic state when the other fighter was not looking. Except for occasional lapses, "Two Fisted" is uniformly funny, with crackling dialogue, and good slapstick. Should one like an impossible, ridiculous bit of fluff, this is the movie to see, but by all means time the arrival so that "Dance Band" will not have to be endured...