Word: fancifulism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thigamajig (Mel Powell Trio; Vanguard LP). Another in Vanguard's fine jazz series. Powell's piano and the trumpet-playing of Boston's Ruby Braff have a bright fresh effect, both in the oldies, like You're My Thrill, and in the fanciful modernities of Powell...
The picture, one of the most fanciful and macabre of all of Rivera's heavy-handed propaganda paintings, shows a servile, rat-faced Castillo Armas shaking hands with U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Castillo Armas bows low; at his belt is an automatic pistol, and in his...
Britain, biggest of Europe's industrial nations, set the pace in 1954. Austerity and rations are now safely behind, and Englishmen are taking seriously the once fanciful talk of a new Elizabethan Age.
Hobson's Choice is a Warm Glow picture. With everyone happy, married, and well on the way to becoming rich at the end, the plot is beyond the most fanciful requirements of Horatio Alger. Fortunately, Hobson's Choice is, betimes, a funny picture.
He said that in his early speeches he was repeatedly asked for more details about his war record. Said Stringfellow: "Somewhere along the line, the idea . . . was integrated in introductions that Doug Stringfellow was a war hero . . . Like many other persons suddenly thrust into the limelight, I rather thrived on...