Word: elan
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...immoral, if not impossible, to divorce style form meaning. Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and the delighted response that it elicited from Loeb Ex audiences last weekend challenge that ponderous view of art. A farcical confection, the play is concocted solely with equal parts elan and elegance levened with tart social witticisms. George Bernard Shaw perceived, with some astuteness, that the resulting delicacy is rather "heartless" because it lacks proximity to emotion. But to an audience suffering from the true heartlessness of reading period, the comedy is appetizing sustenance...
With his customary elan, the Russian-speaking Hammer celebrated the deal at a signing ceremony attended by two Soviet industrial ministers and then flew out of Moscow in his private jet without telling even his top aides many of the details. Among them: just how much the agreement is worth (estimates range from $4 billion to $8 billion) and how Occidental's investment will be financed. One guess: bank loans guaranteed by the U.S. Government. Said a businessman familiar with Occidental: "Where the money comes from is still the big question...
THIS IS the first film I've ever known that provides its viewers with a money-back guarantee, borrowing a page from those late night television spielmeisters who peddle veg-a-matics. Borrowed, too, is a professional slickness and elan by which Cesar and Rosalie comes closer than it should to selling itself to the audience...
...liberal side stands Albert Blumenthal, 43, a skilled legislator who is assistant minority leader of the New York state assembly. Whoever wins will have to be a far different mayor from Lindsay. He will doubtless have less glamour or elan, and New York will sorely miss that. But he will have to be more attentive to administrative detail, more willing to bargain with the multitude of stridently competing groups that make up the city and are presently most unhappy with...
None of the sixties painters shown in Emile de Antonio's curious new film, Painters Painting, has the uniqueness, the personal elan, or the tragic fascination to foster any myth like those Pollock became. Painting has grown more varied since those days, and its leadership has spread out among a number of men and movements. But most importantly, the kind of abstraction which Pollock was instrumental in starting produces paintings before which even the painter himself seems a stranger...