Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala., Rees ran into an enemy turned friend. He was a wartime scientist at Peenemünde, where Germans developed their V-25. When Rees asked the scientist if he was at Peenemünde on Aug. 28, 1944, he thought a moment, then cried in a deep accent: "Ach, I sure was! The bombers came, and they hit my house and knocked me out of bed and almost killed me." Rees explained that he was there, too, as a radio-operator-gunner...
Expressionism is know for its despair, sometimes impressively tragic, at other times excessively neurotic or sentimental. It is a style that conveys deep emotional reaction to experience. It is never merely pretty and rarely intellectually sterile. This exhibit shows again that Kokoschka is one of its greatest exponents...
...Huddled deep in their paper-cluttered examining rooms, the pundits of the press, those professional diagnosticians of the body politic, scrutinized the big, double-barreled question: Will and should Ike run? The President's words at Key West were examined like smears beneath a microscope. The circuitous comments and no comments of his close associates, even the guesses of fellow journalists, were treated as seriously as lab reports. But the diagnosis was so tricky that each diagnostician found himself in the end relying on his own instincts, usually curved to his own political bent...
Announcing in his deep, effortless voice that Lear could not go on but that Welles would, he apologized for looking more like "the man who came to dinner" than a tormented monarch. He candidly confessed that since the City Center was a nonprofit, cultural organization that needed the money, he had "come out to discourage a stampede to the box office." Only a few hundred of an estimated 2,800 present asked for refunds. The rest settled back for An Evening with Orson Welles...
Answering questions from the audience, Welles said that "deep down, all actors believe the bad things critics say about them," admitted that on opening night something had happened to him halfway through the play for the first time in his life that he had always "despised" in other actors: "I really believed the play. I was playing the part of a man who went mad and I was mad. I thought I was getting better and better. But I was so seized with it that I ceased to communicate with the audience...