Word: delights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BALLOU. The funniest if not the fastest gun in the West is Lee Marvin, a double-barreled delight in his portrayal of two desperadoes, one determined to help and one to hinder the schemes of a pistol-packing schoolmarm (Jane Fonda...
Haven of Discontent. The Berkeley campus, a cultural haven in a neighborhood of cheap housing and depressed industry, has some 3,000 hangers-on. They consist mainly of would-be artists, rootless university dropouts, left-winging political activists, and quite harmless little old ladies who delight in attending every concert, rally and public lecture on the campus...
...Hello," says Phyllis McGinley Hayden. A pause. "Yes, this is she." Another pause. "Well, I just got out of the bathtub and I haven't any clothes on . . . Oh!" With this exclamation, in which delight and dismay mingle, she cups her hand over the speaker and shouts into the hall...
...farcical adventure lies a keen, almost wistful admiration for the great achievements of aviation's pioneers. Though the tone is mocking, the feeling is true. Those magnificent men, fluttering foolishly skyward, carry with them the fears and aspirations that humanity often perceives most clearly and with the greatest delight in the forlorn figure of a clown...
Sahara Noses. "I would love to make round, full bodies," says slender Giacometti, 63. "I just want to reproduce nature." Yet fleshing out volume, traditionally a sculptor's delight, appalls him. Said he: "The distance between one side of the nose and the other is like the Sahara." And so his stick figures present the long and the short of man rather than his breadth. As existentialist sculpture, Giacometti's work would be old hat. But, as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opens a retrospective of 140 works this week and London's Tate Gallery...