Word: blas
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...with one malignant eye peering from the lip. Now a birdlike, tattered little man of 50, Burra rivals his compatriot Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) as a shock dispenser. His latest collection of watercolors, on view last week at Boston's Swetzoff Gallery, bowled over even the blasé Brahmins of Beacon Hill and led the Boston Herald to call him "a poet of the underworld...
Despite a suggestive title and a penny-dreadful type of introduction, promising a shocking glimpse of marital infidelity, the movie is still much closer to Victor Hugo's original Ruy Blas than to a Mickey Spillane epic. For one thing, the characters are far more interested in the seventeenth century ideal of glory than in the "passion" currently popular in drugstore circles. Alto, most of them are too busy intriguing against each other to get worked up over a love affair--even if it does involve the Queen of Spain...
...plot is easily summarized. Ruy Blas, the hero, begins as a poor student trudging toward Madrid. At the end, just before his last melodramatic act, he is the Queen's lover and the ruler of Spain. In between there is a fantastic series of double-crosses, mistaken identities, and political intrigues, leaving the audience confused as to who's on whose side. Occasionally, there is even doubt as to who's in whose clothes. No one really cares, though, because even in its most hackneyed scenes the movie is brisk and entertaining enough to render all questions of credibility irrelevant...
Charges of Blas...
...Blasé (Phil Harris; Victor). A collection of ditties grunted by the most expressive monotone on records. In the name tune, and such oldies as Stars Fell on Alabama, he develops effortlessly all the sillier qualities of pop-song rhymes...