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Baal dies without the play's ever having come wholly alive. Despite the spirited work of a proficient cast, the drama is a historical curio that contains something of Brecht's sardonic mood but little of his subsequent theatrical-mastery. Seemingly hailing the life force, Baal paradoxically suggests Brecht's fear of it, as if the worship of life could only lead to sensual derangement. If ever a playwright had a split personality, it was Bertolt Brecht. In later plays, he seemed to revel in decadence and cynicism while mourning purity. His intellect was at war with...
Song over Moscow, for Western audiences, is a cinematic curio, a satirical Russian musical about young love embattled by status seekers, bureaucratic bumblers and the apartment shortage. Giddy and boisterous, the film gulps down its pill of social realist picture-painting and produces some fascinating side effects. It affords a sly peek behind the Iron Curtain, and seems to take all its bows facing West...
Awaiting the Johnsons at the ranch was some good news. Across the Pedernales River from the ranch, local promoters had been planning to set up a kind of tourist trap with curio shops and snack bars, motels and filling stations...
...carry raids into the countryside with her Hupmobile limousine loaded down with Americana. Then she showed it alongside her Yasuo Kuni-yoshis, Elie Nadelmans and Marsden Hartleys. The folk art sold itself and helped sell modern work. In fact, Mrs. Halpert's first sale was pure Americana curio-a chalk mantel stop, used to hold down lace mantel coverings...
...supplies and let them have land to work, then take their land if they didn't pay. When I first saw how he operated, I thought the days of slavery weren't over yet." Recalls Lady Bird's brother, Anthony Taylor, now the owner of a curio shop in Santa Fe: "He looked on Negroes pretty much as hewers of wood and drawers of water...