Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With one sweep of the politician's practiced eye, Nixon sized up the situation: he was clearly getting the cool hello. On hand was a little group of welcomers from the U.S. embassy led by Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, and the 56 U.S. newsmen who had preceded Nixon by an hour in a record-setting (8 hr. 45 min.), nonstop flight in a new, long-legged Boeing 707 from New York. The face of the Soviet Union was the familiar grin...
Selden Rodman has made a, host of both friends and enemies in Manhattan always impassioned, sometimes shrill art world. What excites both camps is Critic Rodman's controversial habit of asking big questions about art and then offering plain answers in book form. Rodman's The Eye of Man (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955) asked whether artists should not "communicate spiritual truth," and replied with an emphatic yes. Now Rodman is deep in a new book, The Insiders, which asks whether artists should not paint what they feel in a recognizable fashion for all to understand. Again he gives...
...drop from the "dense and driven" poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Caedmon), lingers with such lip-smacking satisfaction over Hopkins' sprung rhythms, internal rhymes and clashing dissonances-"lush-kept plush-capped sloe"-that the effect is a little like a gold-threaded, jewel-bedecked gown that dazzles the eye but numbs the senses...
Miss Daneel is a very captivating woman, but she is frequently unconvincing as an actress. She is supposed to cry at several points, for example, but a drier eye was never seen. Moreover, she tends to squeal when she speaks, and she minces about excessively. Mr. Danielewski is the more successful of the pair. But it takes an extremely experienced artist to direct himself in a starring role, and even then the results usually leave much to be desired. His performance is too subdued, his staging indecisive and vague, and there is far too much stage business. He does...
...private-eye series starring Dennis Morgan...