Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon, at artists' get-togethers in Manhattan's Eighth Street Club, Rivers was maintaining, "History doesn't disgust me. Old masters are my favorite painters." Manet's famous Déjeuner sur I'Herbe, in which nude models picnic contentedly with their fully dressed and well-known men about Paris, particularly attracted him. Rivers decided to achieve the same shock value; he persuaded his elderly mother-in-law, Berdie, to pose for 20 exacting, and mostly nude, examinations of anatomy. The result was almost as great a scandal as Washington...
This form was given to the Moscow Art by its founder and first director, Stanislavsky, and became famous as the Stanislavsky method. It was born with Stanislavsky's disgust with the "ridiculous habits of the time." Actors declaimed or hammed, deeply intoning their lines and taking bows after particularly well-received speeches. Costumes, sets, and direction were the same for every production. An author could not see the wardrobe and make-up before the first performance, and the director could not silence the ushers during a play. Stanislavsky "declared war on all the conventionalities of the theatre, wherever they might...
Usually Greeks don't gripe in movie theaters. But last week in Athens packed houses were howling, hissing, booing and whistling in disgust. Zorba the Greek was having its first showings. What the audiences took most unkindly to were scenes that portrayed the people of a small village in Crete uniting to support the knife slaying of a young widow outside church and the robbing of a harlot on her deathbed. "Cretans should do something. This is disgraceful," declared Athens' daily Estia. The Pan-Cretan Union in Athens declared the film monstrous and insulting...
...Forman, his face twisted in a faintly childlike grimace. Again and again the photographers shoved him aside to snap a closeup of the doctor. Finally the SNCC field secretary stepped back a foot or two and plucked a shabby suit coat from a friend. With a huff of disgust, he yanked it on and buttoned it on over his soiled blue overalls. For a moment he lagged behind, morose and contemplative. Then, clapping his hands together, he lunged forward, linked arms with King and began to sing. "We Shall Overcome" echoed back through the ranks out into the streets...
...Wright's novel Native Son deals with an attack similar to the Wylie case [Feb. 5]. Fortunately, the outcome of Whitmore's case is extremely different, for the lawyers and jury of Wright's novel convicted the Negro suspect and sent him to his death. The disgust I felt after concluding Wright's novel was joy compared to my reaction to the Whitmore case...