Word: displays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blood would run out." But she turned up onstage convincingly gaunt, wild-eyed, almost green with malevolence and makeup. She paced the stage and clawed the air like a caged lioness. Callas took twelve curtain calls, earned, mighty critical bravos ("terrifying," "elemental," "chilling") for a superb dramatic display. As for her voice, critics as usual found it uneven; the Daily Telegraph judged it "disappointingly small and lacking in resonance." But without the Callas dramatic presence, critics agreed, Medea would have been what Cherubini predicted in 1815: "Too severe for English tastes...
...highest award, given in the past to such men as Louis Henri Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. It will also give Gropius a chance to get some long-brooding concerns off his chest. Says Gropius: "We have now amassed such a tremendous arsenal of techniques that their bristling display has nearly robbed us of our sense of balance...
...Berliner Zeitung in East Berlin said sarcastically that to be on TIME'S cover is "a high honor generally reserved only for faithful servants of American bank and stock-market barons." Quicker than anyone could say verdammte Lüge, the USIS put up a window display in West Berlin (see cut) that told the Germans, including the thousands of East Berliners who shop there, what all except Communists have known for a long time...
...artists have never been asked to do more than reflect the time in which they live. By this standard a selection of 79 works (priced from $75 to $22,000) by 66 U.S. artists (two-thirds under 40) now on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art makes a lively commentary on the present state of modern man's concerns and anxieties as well as his changing view of beauty. The broad selection chosen from some 700 entries underlines another fact: whether today's sculpture starts off as junk and ends...
...Boulris is back on the beam again this afternoon, the varsity may give Yale's rather undistinguished pitching staff a rough time. The Eli hurlers who were on display here three weeks ago showed a lot of windup but very little in the way of dazzling pitching...