Word: finer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Criss-Cross (Columbia) presents Monk in even finer fettle, playing with the same group two years later. The apprenticeship with the master has enriched everyone's technique and understanding, and Monk's reconsiderations of some of his private standards (Crepuscule with Nellie, Rhythm-a-ning) prove the immense vitality of his imagination...
Stingy Wages. Of all the rococo porcelain artists, none achieved finer art with his difficult and limited medium than Franz Anton Bustelli. His life story is obscure. It is not even known for sure whether he was German, Italian or Swiss by birth. One of the few firmly established details of biography is the date of his death: April 18, 1763. In observance of the bicentennial of his death, Munich's Bavarian National Museum is displaying a complete collection of his work-102 figurines...
Strange Interlude, by Eugene O'Neill, shows its age, but the skill and fidelity of the Actors Studio company make this revival a vibrantly living theatrical experience. Geraldine Page is at the top of her form, and Broadway form rarely gets any finer...
...show has had its good moments. Van Dyke is a fine mimic and an even finer slapsticker. He is 37, but "I was born 30 years too late," he saysand indeed he does at times recall the Harold Lloyds and Stan Laurels that he much admires. Playing a jury foreman, he jumped out of the jury box to pick up the voluptuous defendant's handkerchief, reeled around awkwardly before the court and fell back into the jury box. It was one moment that a casual viewer could appreciate. Last week came another one, as he told his little...
Newest name to be linked with Eliza beth Taylor is, of all people, Vincent Van Gogh. Liz's yen for the finer things crept into the news when California Art Dealer Francis Taylor, representing his daughter, traipsed off to Sotheby's London auction rooms and paid $257,600 for a Van Gogh landscape, View of the Asylum and Chapel of St. Remy. Already on loan from Liz to the Los Angeles Museum are a Renoir, a Cassatt, a Modigliani, a Rouault and a Frans Hals...