Word: fad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trip, to China in 1934, revolutionized Tobey's art. He studied Chinese calligraphy, came home convinced that the barriers between Orient and Occident needed leveling, and that he could help by interpreting the Western world in scrambled calligraphs of his own invention. They made his name, started a fad for snarled, sloppy-looking abstractions that is still going strong. Such younger Seattle painters as Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan sat at his feet for a spell, and Manhattanites Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning may well have been influenced by his exhibitions...
...touch of the Times," admittedly an "experimental film," is a silent Chaplin-type full length "fantasy" about a kite-flying fad among a group of tin workers. The same double standard applies here, too. The script drags in places, and the unusual musical score starts to grate after a half hour of it. This, if you expect a full-fledged Charlie Chaplin job. But the many clever scenes redeem the whole job if you judge "A Touch of the Times" for what it is--the surprisingly competent first effort of a new undergraduate group...
...cabaret, Bricktop gave them just what they wanted-notably, such old Gershwin songs as Lady Be Good and The Man I Love-in a contralto warm and caressing, for all her 56 years. For energetic youngsters, kicking up their heels in Rome's current Charleston fad (TIME, Dec. 18), Bricktop was at her best with Yes Sir, That's My Baby, backed by some solid rhythm from her band...
...spring the prisoners showed a passionate interest in flower gardening. The beds were beautifully kept until a visiting narcotics agent discovered marijuana growing among the hollyhocks and sunflowers. The garden fad ended on the spot...
Since 1847, white kids and excessive drinking of green tea have gone out of fad, but snobs are in again, and so is writing about them. The latest snobographer to revive the discussion is Russell Lynes, an editor of Harper's who set himself up in a magazine article last year as an arbiter of high, low and middle brows. In Snobs, Arbiter Lynes patters along in Thackeray's large footsteps, rather like a shrill but amiable terrier at the end of a 100-year leash. His bark is sure to get plenty of attention, and his bite...