Word: davises
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The Pennsylvania Academy awards, by contrast, are given to established artists invited by the Academy's jury to enter, and to "over the transom" entries from unknowns as well. The Temple Gold Medal, won this year by Stuart Davis and in earlier decades by such luminaries as Whistler, Eakins...
Beyond the mechanical problems of selection comes the intent of the prize. Should it be to crown a style and seem to urge young artists to march to the easel and start painting like Davis or Giacometti? Or does it encourage new talent to be different-for the sake of...
Stuart Davis says he doesn't see why a jury, when it likes a picture very much, shouldn't say so. "Quarrel with the jury itself if you disagree with their choice," he adds, "but don't quarrel with the institution of expressing ideas." Alberto Giacometti gladly...
As an actress acquires more wrinkles, she generally gets fewer lines. But the rule does not apply to Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, who have dramatically turned age to advantage. In What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? these two redoubtable tootsies of yesteryear played a couple of hilarious old horrors...
Poetic justice is perhaps a bit oldfashioned, but it's fun. And so is practically everything else about this trite little thriller-especially Actress Davis. Exuberantly uncorseted, her torso looks like a gunnysack full of galoshes. Coarsely cosmeticked, her face looks like a U-2 photograph of Utah. And...