Word: elegante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE Spectacular of the Week, bumping such attractions as the Jonathan Winters Show and ABC's Wednesday-night movie, was the all-network, prime-time Richard Nixon Show, introducing to the nation the twelve men the President-elect has chosen to head the top Government departments. "The people will...
Certain composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Dvorak possess an unerring inner discrimination for the wind timbres and persuasion, while many other composers simply pay obligatory homage to the noisemakers with passages of stark, inhumane cacophony for the brass, or limpid, precious colorings for the woodwind. With such works...
Going down the list, John (Bad Day At Black Rock, The Great Escape) Sturge's direction is adequate, bolstered by Daniel Fapp's thoughtful, occasionally elegant, Panavision camera, Color is unexceptional. As for special effects, the studio North Pole is convincing insofar as none of us have been there to...
McClelland is obviously interested in formal, traditional calligraphy. The exhibit includes "The Whale," an old English poem which he wrote out in insular uncial letters on a regular page layout. Both the language and the letters are alien--they could be written in Islamic script and have equivalent elegant linear...
This titillating tidbit is only one among hundreds of objects which prove definitely what Design Research, Georg Jensen, and Bonniers have been hinting at--plastic can be elegant and expressive in its own right, as well as functional.