Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...type lighting and shipped it off to New York, Sam Goldwyn ruefully telegraphed: "Film awful. You show only half the actor's face, the rest is in darkness. I'll have to sell the film at half-price." DeMille's quick-witted rejoinder: "Is it my fault if you don't know Rembrandt lighting when you see it?" Exultant, Goldwyn wired back: "Wonderful, wonderful, with Rembrandt lighting I can get twice the money." "And," glowed Supersalesman Goldwyn last week...
...docile and "eunuchoid," it is their own fault. If a wife makes any sort of request that involves money when the husband retires to his lair to rest from the day's hunting, it is because it is the only time she sees him long enough to get any discussion on the matter. Responsibility in marriage goes further than merely providing a paycheck and material comforts. It is in that notion that the true "cultural poverty" of the husband lies. Men had better stop treating their wives like the housemaids their mothers once had and treat them like...
...more opera that night in Aix-les-Bains. Later, the festival management issued an angry statement: the performance at which Baritone Valdengo balked was a retake for television kinescope, for which the rest of the company had readily agreed to perform free. Moreover, it was Monsieur Valdengo's fault in the first place: he did not know his part (he had pinned a copy of his score to his lyre), and had improvised to the point of making the retake necessary...
...fresh-air fiends among painters nowadays are chiefly amateurs having the same fault that plagued the Hudson River school: a weakness for the picturesque. To their predecessors, the picturesque meant towering cliffs, rushing streams, deep woods, mists and rising storms. Contemporary landscape painters look for a different, milder set of cliches: red barns, spreading elms, old wharves and the like. Professional modernists, for their part, do not set foot out of doors, send their models packing, pull the shades down tight, turn on the light, and paint abstract patterns uninspired by anything...
...America I have also seen the President being practically ordered around by press photographers." U Nu presented his own analysis of Americans: "They are industrious in the extreme, whether they work in factories or on farms; they are luxury-loving; they are generous to a fault; and they are freedom-loving to the extent that they are willing to lay down their lives...