Word: flatterer
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...sense of deep space that Renaissance artists brought to painting has largely gone by the board. Such moderns as Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Rouault set the fashion for flatter pictures. "Leonid" (real name Léonide Berman) is a 53-year-old painter who flouts that fashion. His work, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, was as spacious as he could make...
...their performances--still, it occurred to me that "The Guardsman" is one of those plays which very much needs the kind of 'grandness' that the Lunts always bring to their parts. Without that quality, "The Guardsman" is just another pleasantly amusing comedy of the Continental genre, designed to flatter one with its naughtiness rather than honestly exhilarate as comdedy should...
...always two kinds of paintings," Matisse went on. "First there is the kind that introduces something new. Such paintings begin by being worthless but eventually they ascend the heights of value. Then there are those which are accepted at the outset because they offer nothing new but simply flatter the public taste. They are later found to be worthless...
...approval and Actor Kawarasaki followed this triumph with Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Both were popular successes and financial flops. What with high taxes and high admission prices, complained Kawarasaki, "we still have to put on plays which, flatter the people who come...
Last week Kawarasaki had a new audience to flatter. In the presence of fire-eating Party Secretary Kyuichi Tokuda (who presumably had promised to foot the bills), Kawarasaki and 71 Zenshinza players joined the Communist Party. "After all," explained the ex-emancipator, "Lincolnism and Marxism are not exactly the same, but they have many similarities...