Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Higgins to the girl's Liza, the town assumes he is playing Don Juan. Preachers rail, hooded figures threaten, before a ladylike Jolly goes North for further schooling. Beyond some vivid touches by Eartha Kitt, the play has small merit. It is so gagged up with breezy situations, crude stereotypes and comic characters that the racial angle, which might have breathed chill realism upon Shavian comedy, seems merely employed for effect. What is not Pygmalion about the play is tatterdemalion...
...Animal (overleaf) is one of about 100 Luristan bronzes in Brundage's collection; he calls it the finest he has ever seen. The mysterious horsemen of Luristan (mountainous western Iran) flourished a thousand and more years before the time of Christ, left no ruins of cities but only crude tombs crammed with weapons and splendid bronze harness equipage. Brundage's Indian Parvati is one of many he owns representing the Indian mountain goddess. (Some of the others, Brundage recalls, were held up as "pornographic" by U.S. customs.) Despite its elongated ears, topknot and neat mole like a third...
...wake of Porter's memorable trip, his proposed recognition of Red China met with stony nonrecognition in the two places most concerned. "Crude interference in China's internal affairs!" cried Radio Peking. "Preposterous," said Hong Kong's pro-Nationalist newspaper, Shih Pao: "Our American friends should soberly think of the damage done to U.S. good will abroad by Porter's shallow views...
Born 43 years ago into a wealthy Chicago family (Thor Power Tool Co.), Florsheim was a painfully shy child, channeled all his energies into straight-A scholarship and crude, gloomy art. His father reluctantly helped him get an art education in Europe during the 1930s, but before World War II Florsheim managed to sell just one picture...
...impetus for making the giant silver lips produce pearls instead of buttons came from the Australian government's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, which has the job of promoting new industries. Experiments produced only crude pearls, but showed promise. The man who turned the experiments into profits was Keith Bureau, an Australian businessman and partner in the big Melbourne importing firm of Brown & Bureau. Three years ago he formed a syndicate with a U.S. businessman, an Australian pearler, and asked Japanese Culture Pearl Expert Tokuichi Kuribayashi, president of Tokyo's Nippo Pearl Co. Ltd., to join them...