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...short animated films, selected in part from winners of international festivals. The styles range from New Yorker-cartoon-like line drawings to color swirls and slashes reminiscent of Kandinsky, from sequenced photographs of porcelain dolls to images like amoebas in a microscopic slide. Mostly, though, they transmit undiluted visual delight...
...negotiate the peace in the '50s, with the Anatomy of Criticism, which outlined the science of literary criticism as a value-free system meant to classify all of the aspects of our own "verbal experience." Here was the boy-genius of sorts, with his shy smile and ingenuous delight n applause, who seemed to command all of Western literature and more. Here too was the wizened sage who not only possessed a comprehensive knowledge of literature, but brought it together in a perapatetic lecture-style, roaming up and down the superhighways and obscure paths of literary endeavors. His reliance...
...talent on their squads. But those bums from Comm. Ave. always had a stream of talent from out of the North country and Que.s and Ont.s conspicuously accentuated the B.U. players' hometowns. It particularly annoyed me that these semi-pro ringers were forever foiling my Eagles much to the delight of an obnoxious New York crowd, which, in my opinion, deserved no part of this Boston Tradition...
...first revival of Booth Tarkington's Clarence since it opened with Alfred Lunt in the title role in 1919 is a class-conscious comedy and a delight to behold. The hero, Clarence )Stephen Keep), is a mysterious World War I veteran who applies to the Wheeler family for a job. The Wheelers-stuffy father, silly mother, bratty daughter, son thrown out of Princeton-take him on and find him a paragon of piano tuning, plumbing and wistfully disarming charm. Keep is a perfect stand-in for a young Jimmy Stewart. As Clarence, he woos and wins the governess (Marian...
Here is Tiepolo's delight in wide, airy high space working as effectively in a brisk pen-and-wash sketch as on a Venetian ceiling...