Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since its beginning in 1896, the Carnegie international exhibition of contemporary art has aroused as much irritation as appreciation in its native Pittsburgh. It undertakes to round up what the world's artists are doing at the moment, and artists are notoriously a bit ahead of the public. Last week's Carnegie, with 367 paintings and 127 sculptures, irritated even more than usual-the show proved to be almost wholly devoted to abstract expressionism from 31 countries. Abstractions swept nine out of ten prizes (the tenth was a semi-abstract Henry Moore) and, as the New York Times...
...easy bit of rewriting. For one thing, Playwright Terence Rattigan's well-made play is actually two well-made plays, each one about an hour long; and Scriptwriter Terence Rattigan, with the collaboration of John Gay, had no real choice but to combine them by a sort of gambler's shuffle-first a scene from one, then a scene from the other-that could scarcely fail to provide some notable examples of non sequitur. Fortunately, the method has also encouraged a good deal of suspense, and introduced a few fetchingly ironic parallels...
...Paducah (Ky.) Sun-Democrat: "If you birds have no more respect for your place, or no more judgment than this, please stop sending us stones." Mused amused Columnist Stan Windhorn of the Sarasota (Fla.) Herald-Tribune: "In sheer honesty, we must express an admiration for this curious bit of candor, but from the practical point of view we must confess that it seems a terribly long...
With characteristic spontaneity, Crimeds decided last night to do their bit to alleviate the burdens brought about by the strike. Ten thousand CRIMSONS have been rushed to the Big City, but the usual College press-run has been maintained...
...gats her back along with somebody else, Richard Dozier, who had Miss Tarrant, lost her to Swan, took her away again, then got her back along with somebody else, Swan, etc. Dozier, who seems to have had less acting experience than the other two, is loud at times, a bit nervous, but on the whole satisfactory in the part. The other majhor role is taken by Robert Schwartz, a rich and unifluential art dealer who marries Miss tarrant. He has an unfortune muatache and, did space permit, would have the same permit, would hava the same things said about...