Word: famed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canyons, in City and Country. But O'Keeffe's chief claim to fame lies in the brilliant hardness of her most ambitious work. Her cityscapes look as unyielding as asphalt, and sharp as broken glass; her barns are as antiseptic as hospitals; her crosses as forbidding as the real thing...
...night). First he works in a cigar store where his fellow clerks nourish their starved egos by achieving the maximum of seductions at the minimum of expense. While they dream of the day when they can buy any woman they want, Bernard dreams of deathless love and literary fame. In his off hours he buries himself in the works of Dreiser, Ibsen, Keats and Sherwood Anderson, agonizingly hammers out his own youthful fiction...
J.A.L. speaks kindly of "Rodeo," saying patronizingly that "this simple, attractive story" stood up well beside works of greater fame. If "Rodeo" is not one of the most famous ballets presented in recent years by any ballet company, what is it? Does J.A.L. realize that "Rodeo" by Agnes de Mille was the force behind ballet in all musical comedies? When the Theater Guild saw the Ballet Russe's production, they hired de Mille to do the choreography for "Oklahoma!" and even J.A.L. surely doesn't need diagrams drawn from here...
...McCutcheon's pen scratched its best when dipped in the milk of human kindness, and one-eyed Carey Orr's vitriol is more to the Colonel's taste. McCutcheon, in failing health, did not mind the eclipse; his kind of cartooning had brought him fun and fame, a Pulitzer Prize (1931) and a good living (around $50,000 a year...
...second viewing of "Rodeo" Tuesday night was much pleasanter than this reviewer had expected. The charm of Aaron Copland's folk-like music, the vivacious gaiety of Agnes DcMille's dances, the colorful costuming, and the simple, attractive story stand up very well indeed beside works of greater fame...