Word: bows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nude With Violin (by Noel Coward) is, more accurately, Noel with one string to his bow. The play concerns a just-dead and extremely famous painter who, it turns out, had never painted a single one of his pictures. As the painter's cheeky, in-on-the-swindle valet. Coward buzzes about while the dead man's family try to hush things up and cope with the actual painter-and potential blackmailer. Then it turns out that there was also a second painter. And, for that matter, a third-and a fourth. Though Coward has carefully varied...
...high instinctual ideals of political freedom and economic dynamism remain exemplary goals for a world which seeks a leader. In asserting our strength, we can no longer afford to denegrate the accomplishments and efforts of our allies, or our enemies. Vanity must yield to realistic confldence, and condescension must bow to sincere cooperation...
...bugles sounded, the drums beat, and the entire orchestra rose to a grand finale of cannon fire. The Moscow audience applauded the symphony warmly, but not with unusual enthusiasm. Wearing a dark, double-breasted suit, Composer Shostakovich walked up to the stage and took a breathless, jerky bow. Correspondents noted that he was fighting a nervous...
...current issue of Lampy provides the Bow Street answer to libidinous impulses--an existentialist sense of humor. Themes in "The Battle of Hastings Memorial Issue" range from assassination and divorce to nightmare and heart attack...
...criticism of the novels involved is both incisive and original. The films chosen are The Informer, which he classifies as a mediocre novel made into a superlative film; Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, The Grapes of Wrath and The Ox Bow Incident, excellent novels resulting in excellent films; and Madame Bovary, a classic that was butchered in adaptation...