Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the familiar Disney characters figuring in the exhibit are Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Ferdinand the Bull, Snow White, and the Seven Dwaris...
...insulting Italians as to have its military characters talk Esperanto. The picture indicts nothing except war in general, and does even this halfheartedly. This caution, however, is not due primarily to Hollywood's reluctance to offend, but merely to its intense eagerness to make profits. Author Sherwood, as familiar with the screen as he is with the stage, was well aware that no ideology this side of Heaven is nearly as important to cinema audiences as the spectacle of Clark Gable embracing Norma Shearer for the first time since they both appeared in Strange Interlude (1932). Consequently, he devoted...
Shortly before the stroke of twelve one night last week 300 people were enjoying a movie in Chillán's National Theatre. Suddenly, above the screen voices, came an ominous, familiar rumble. Everyone knew what it meant but before anyone could get to the street, the walls buckled and the roof crashed. Outside in the heaving plaza, heavy brick-walled buildings toppled into the street. The massive front of the Governor's Palace swayed forward, and fell in a cascade on several passing cars. Thousands of rotos and their families, caught in their beds, had no chance...
...sold well because they were escapist. In another breath she accuses readers, and particularly critics (who ignore her books' "sound sociological basis"), of not taking them seriously enough. She kisses her hand to luck, thinks So Big became a best-seller because of "those two short words, their familiar ring, and all the fat round curves...
Most exotic: Isamu Noguchi's Radio Nurse, a grilled bakelite face-prettier as a radio than as a nurse. Most graceful: a brightly colored terra cotta mother and child by Waylande Gregory. Most arresting: José de Creeft's familiar strong and peaceful Head in Belgian granite. Most horrendous: a lifesize, lifeless woman by Alexander Archipenko. Her name...