Word: dullnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massachusetts' Gardner Cox is known chiefly for pretty portraits. This time he sent in a painting entitled Cathedral, which appeared to represent a boulder seen through a pane of glass. Complex and painted in dull browns and greys, it was designed not so much to catch the eye as to hold...
...Story for Strangers (by Marc Connelly; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is told, via flashbacks, to a traveling salesman in a small-town barbershop, and is quite as dull, and ten times as long, as the usual barber's yarn. Subtitled "A Parable," the play is concerned with an undisclosed miracle that has transformed a rascally, coldhearted community into a garden spot of virtue and brotherly love...
...life was most shadowy-when he "lived in seclusion ... in his town of Salem, a seclusion certainly grave, if not morbid, obsessed with the Puritan sense of guilt and haunted by a family curse, writing his wonderful stories that no one knew he had written, working at the dull routine of the Custom House to provide for his family, and emerging in his early middle age ... to take part in a contemporary world he had scarcely known existed." Says Robert Cantwell: "Such a portrait, with its angular shadows, its El Greco distortions . . . is in itself an interesting product...
...back to the gold rings--after a few minutes, they got dull. We polished them for half-an-hour, and they regained their shiny luster, but the one thing the customs officer didn't question me about in New York was my declaration of one brass ring, value two dollars...
...goes off on a book or a play, liking it when nobody else can stomach a word of it, and it is usually a one-joke book or a one-joke play. A few years ago he liked a musical called "Park Avenue" which flopped. It was one long, dull joke about intermarriage and divorce in the Park Avenue set. But Gibbs raved about it, for what must be curious reasons. Whatever they are, those are the same reasons why he raved about "The Loved...