Word: daube
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this point the head of the papier-mache figure of Christ slowly turned. "Where were the multitudes and sick he had healed?" intoned the narrator, and Christ's head began to rise. "And an angel appeared," said the voice. Suddenly a spotlight flashed on to catch a daub of silicone paint on one of the figure's lower eyelids, to give the illusion of a glistening tear. The show reached its smash climax with the sudden illumination of six papier-mache choirboys singing a hymn...
...Enger rises to become the "imported delicacies" king of U.S. grocery-dom, he drags others with him on a golden leash. For the sister who cannot act he builds a theater. The brother who cannot paint is sent to Paris to daub away, and the brother who likes boogie-woogie is made to play Bach. Meanwhile, he nurses an albatross complex about the economic deadweights he has to carry...
Teleplaywright Serling, 31, an ex-amateur boxer himself. He did not intend, he says, for Requiem simply to daub tar and feathers on the fight game-"I tried to dramatize the rejection of a human being by a segment of society. It could have been played out against any background at all." One of the medium's most prolific authors (ico-odd plays), Serling is serving TV (at a record $7,500 a script) some of the most tightly constructed, trenchant lines it has yet spoken. "I love TV," he confesses, "but writing is mostly just fighting discouragement. Sponsor...
...artificial, posed effect. But in general Seale displays a sure taste for the fast-moving, the lavish, and the dramatic. So do Robert Fletcher, whose costumes are extravagant but not ostentatiously so, and Caldwell Titcomb, whose music is colorful and strong. In the last act, for a final daub of stage color, Seale and Titcomb have collaborated to introduce a boys' choir singing an original 15th century motet. Perched on the very top of O'Hearn's set, the boys seem almost as high up as a choir should...
...doesn't have immediately something at hand, has a little bit of a strange feeling. Now, but to say I was bored to death at Gettysburg-there are so many things that I have to do-I have piled up stacks of books ... I, as you know, daub with paints; I like the actual roaming around the farm. I love animals, and like to go out and see them ..." Certainly this could be a restrained verification of Gettysburg frustration meaning "I'll run, all right." But the New York Times's James Reston began his report: "This...