Word: cruder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portrait of "Saskia," the shadow graphs indicate that the underpainting is probably the work of Bol, while the final surface painting is probably by Rembrandt. X-ray evidence shows that several paintings, once attributed to Rembrandt, may really prove to be the work of Bol, whose underpainting is cruder and less decisive than the master...
...finally rescued by the Sheik from a cutthroat gang. Immediate consequence of its successful revival was naturally a race between proprietors of other old Valentino pictures to get their products to the screen. Also on view was The Sheik (1921), which, as an example of an even cruder school of cinema production, was exhibited in a mood of frank burlesque, with a bald-headed pianist thumping out The Sheik of Araby to make the audience laugh. But not all of them thought it was funny. One woman complained of the irreverence to the manager: "My God, it's disgraceful...
...might well have expected his career to achieve oaklike stature. Born (1892) in Fulton, Ky. where his father tended bar, he spent his barefoot childhood in the peaceful democracy of a small provincial town. Shortly before Prohibition shut down on Hickman County, Father Rascoe moved his family to the cruder boom environment of Shawnee, Okla. There Burton grew up with his peers, played football and baseball, fell in love and out again. But inwardly he was not so conformist; at 15 he confided to his journal: "My inward thoughts on things now differ so greatly from the thoughts of people...
William Holbrook, in charge of the dances, was wise enough not to fall back wholly upon the ludicrous effects invariably produced by men's attempting to employ the charms of women. This cruder part of the comedy is by no means neglected, but it is stoutly reinforced by some complex and highly entertaining routines, which the chorus men and chorus girls have assiduously perfected. Outstanding, however, in the line of non-dramatic amusement, are the dancing and the Indian-club juggling of John Develin...
...surprising that France, undeterred by her recent failure to bring culture to the mulish American male by means of evening perfume, should lead the parado toward a war bigger and more ethic. Occupied with the loathsome mechanics of bombers and howitzers, the cruder nations seem to have lost sight of the aesthetic side of that man Mars. But there is no good reason why Gabrielic Chanel cannot pool her resources with the Quat d'Orsay in a gigantic endeavor, so that at the moment of the next Serajeve France will not be caught with her vanity case unopened...