Word: comic-opera
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Wonderful things happen (sometimes) when a painting gets stolen. Last year the City Art Museum of St. Louis lent its $150,000 Cézanne. The Artist's Sister, to the museum at Aix-en-Provence in southern France, only to have it purloined in a comic-opera art theft. Last week St. Louis' Cézanne was back and on display, and worth $75,000 more than before...
...final act was played out with consummate idiocy and comic-opera overtones. That night, Poggi ordered...
Since the Kennedy and Carmody stories run along parallel lines, they never properly meet. Charlie's story is essentially a rasping family chronicle faintly echoing the mood of Long Day's Journey Into Night. For all his comic-opera ways, Charlie Carmody is a gritty figure out of the immigrant past who clawed his way to wealth as a real estate operator. He can reminisce for hours on the joys of collecting, or extracting, the rent from hard payers. Charlie's son Hugh enters the priesthood, possibly in disgust at his father's tactics, but comes...
...political action, the society accepts the hardboiled, dictatorial direction of one man who sees democracy as a "perennial fraud" and estimates that the U.S. is 40% to 60% Communist-controlled. In other times, other places, the John Birch "Americanists" -as they call themselves ¶might seem a tiresome, comic-opera joke. But already the society admits to cells in 35 states, and its partisans have made their anonymous and unsettling presence felt in scores of U.S. communities...
There had been space shots before and riots before, but last week the news somehow became very personal. "With all the funny names and the comic-opera behavior," said Myrtle Carr in Atlanta, "I'm not sure we really believed the stories about the Congo until we saw people fighting right in the United Nations." Customers on the television floor of Marshall Field's department store in Chicago watched the incredible U.N. riot on a floor model. Said a salesclerk: "They were stunned. They just stood there with their mouths open. They didn't believe...