Word: comically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found Pineapple Poll, a kind of English Gaite Parisienne, the biggest hit of the company's 16 ballets, and the one that best fits the company's youthful talents. Unlike the senior Sadler's Wells, whose virtuosity is in classic ballet, the juniors do better in comic and contemporary works. Compared with George Balanchine's brilliant new Swan Lake for the New York City Ballet, their version seemed callow indeed. Nutcracker was a disappointing series of divertissements...
...drift soon became permanent. Lyonel became a caricaturist, and though still living in Europe, he began drawing comic strips for the Chicago Tribune. He soon learned to hate deadlines, found that what he really wanted was to paint ("My contentment is founded on creative work"). He joined the Bauhaus group, and with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky (TIME, March 24) became a top apostle of abstract art. "I have to destroy nature," he cried, "before I can build her up again." The architect he took as his model: Johann Sebastian Bach...
...admit it . . . And when I did understand and they did not, I knew I wasn't doing it right and wrestled with it until they did . . ." The attention he got from the wounded soldiers first led Laughton to suspect that a lot of Americans want more than comic books in their literary diet. He passionately urges people to read to each other at home (see box). He is convinced that it is the sort of shared experience that draws families and friends closer together...
...mission worker who also dances. Revivalist Vera-Ellen saves Sinner Astaire, but not all their fast stepping can quite save a plodding picture. This pretty period piece is punctuated with a few chuckles provided by Marjorie Main as a Park Avenue dowager and Keenan Wynn as Astaire's comic sidekick...
Jour de Fête (Fred Orain; Mayer-Kingsley) transplants some Mack Sennett pratfalls to the French provinces. The center of this slapstick is François (Jacques Tati), a sad-faced, gangling, rural postman who looks like a cross between General Charles de Gaulle and oldtime silent Comic Charles Chase. On the annual fair day (jour de fête), François sees a movie about high-speed American postal methods and develops a mania for movement...