Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hooted at by others. Wrote Critic John Russell in London's Sunday Times after seeing a Pollock painting in 1956: "I will not say that I was prejudiced against Mr. Pollock's picture by the fact that he made it by pouring the paint onto a flat canvas out of a can and later slapping the huge canvas with his own paint-covered hands. An interesting work might be produced by these lowly procedures; but I don't think, in this case, it was the canvas that deserved the slaps...
Eleven years ago Los Angeles' enterprising KTLA mounted a mobile TV camera, began offering its viewers on-the-spot coverage of major news events. Among them: atom bomb explosions on Yucca Flat, a Sante Fe train wreck, an earthquake in California, the ordeal of little Kathy Fiscus trapped in the bottom of a well. Last week KTLA announced triumphantly that it had succeeded in building a TV camera into a helicopter, the world's first commercial airborne unit...
...while--and you know it--that grey-haired, white-aproned, full-bodied, flat-footed American Mother, intrepid in her virtue and the iron-eyed apotheosis of "The Family Unit," bestrode the welcome mat, patrolled the hearth, and demanded homage...
Robert Blackburn brings plenty of verve to the role of the play's hero, Bassanio. Basil Langton fails to give much color to the flat title role of Antonio. Malocclusive sibilants unsuit Thomas Hill (the Duke of Venice) for classical speaking; he should stick to playing Willy Loman and other such parts, which are ideal for him. Of the smaller roles, Robert Jordan's Solanio is outstanding...
...best of the set. A bedroom comedy, complete with burglar, about a pair of upper-class house guests, out of funds, whose hostess wants to get rid of them, it is consistently funny. But why do they omit the final line? Without it, the end falls flat...