Word: chic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...merciless glare of the TV cameras came a little too close for comfort. The Duchess, like several good-looking girls on TV these days, made the mistake of rushing into the new bouffante hairdo, which the camera reproduces as a bunchy, badly made wig. Otherwise, she looked ageless and chic, but rarely at the camera. She fidgeted with flowers, prinked her dress more than once, and lurched across the screen to preen the Duke's hair...
Warmth & Pressure. Rex's secret is surely neither intellectual nor physical. Fellow Actor Orson Welles thinks it comes down to "chic-style without pressure." But stars of Harrison's brilliance are formed, like diamonds, under great pressure. As with diamonds, the process takes time-and warmth. "Rex himself must be a pretty nice guy," Charles Laughton argues, "or he couldn't give out the warmth and delight in life and humanity he does every night. You can't fake that...
...nation's most influential art teachers likes to fling these fighting words into the teeth of the abstract-expressionist storm. Josef Albers, chairman of the design department at Yale, clearly deplores self-expression of the big, drippy, half-conscious sort made chic by Jackson Pollock & Co. "What we need is less expression and more visualization," he says. "I try to teach my students to visualize...
William Gropper never lost his social conscience or his conviction that "the artist's function is to be aware of life and conditions of the times." He still satirizes the blustering Senators and the martini-drinking set that crowds the chic exhibit halls. On the other hand, he retains compassion for the little east side tailor who emigrated to this country lie his own grandfather. Yet, both in moods of satire and compassion his color has become more strident. "I am having a ball with color," he says, and this above all seems to be his concession to the Formalistic...
...superior singing talent came across to the audience somewhat better than Andre Gregory's Hector Charybdis. Nevertheless, the two hit it off well in the dance duet, "Scylla and Charibdis," and Gregory made his part well worth everyone's while in "Hector's Song," which he executued with great chic. Harold Scott made a remarkably good thing out of a small part with his pantomimes in the role of Paris...