Word: blakely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COLD BLOOD. In black-and-white photography that evokes the grimness of the real event, Director Richard Brooks records the murder of a Kansas family with remarkable fidelity and probes the characters of the two killers, expertly played by Robert Blake (as Perry Smith) and Scott Wilson (as Dick Hickock...
...COLD BLOOD. In black-and-white photography that evokes the grimness of the real event, Director Richard Brooks records the murder of a Kansas family with remarkable fidelity and probes the characters of the two killers, expertly played by Robert Blake (as Perry Smith) and Scott Wilson (as Dick Hickock...
Sense & Sensibility. In painting, the Romantic era in France produced the art of David, Ingres and Delacroix, but Anglo-Saxon Britain far more nearly mirrored the chaotic spirit of the age through the diverse brilliance of Gainsborough, Reynolds, Constable, Blake and Turner. How strikingly they and other British artists staked out the realm of the new sensibility in the Romantic era can be seen in a display of 236 oils, watercolors and drawings, assembled from collections in America and Europe, now at the Detroit Institute of Arts (see color pages). "British Masterpieces," which will be shown at the Philadelphia Museum...
Last week Cecil Day-Lewis, 63, a former Oxford professor known to the public as much for his 19 competent whodunits (under his pseudonym, Nicholas Blake) as for his poetry, became Britain's 18th poet laureate. And who knows? The pen of a still vigorous, thoughtful contemporary could turn a new page in Britain's national poetry-or scratch its final, deadening quatrain. The rangy, resonant-voiced Day-Lewis (who has only lately begun hyphenating his two surnames), seemed determined to broaden the scope of his office...
...real breadwinner, of course, is his alter ego, Nicholas Blake, creator of Nigel Strangeways and other shrewd detective heroes, who was himself created in 1935 to finance a repaired roof over the Day-Lewis home at Cheltenham. Day-Lewis has kept increasingly comfortable ones overhead ever since, including the 18th century home in Greenwich, where he now lives with his second wife and their two children...