Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There is a strange half-resemblance to Nikita Khrushchev that appears only momentarily and from certain angles. The same line slopes from between the shoulder blades up to the top of the skull, with few contours at the rear of the head; the same roll and a half of flesh lies under the chin. But in mouth, nose, eyes, and forehead Snow differs from Khrushchev, and one thinks more of a character from his own novels than of the Russian...
...painter's big job is to find what Koerner calls "an invention"-a pose, a gesture or expression that somehow reveals the essence of the person before him. "I invade privacy," says Koerner, "the most highly secret, sacred privacy." The green hair and the purple patches of flesh are in fact a legacy of the mpressionists -"the idea of green foliage, blue sky, warmth of flesh, all playing, interchanging with each other." For the dominant color of the painting as a whole, Koerner searches for clues in the subject's own character...
...well George Roy Hill has directed and Barbara Baxley, James Daly and Robert Webber have acted it, a good deal seems somehow unsatisfying. There is, in the end, too much sense of mere surface, of flare-ups with more theater in them than truth, of Freud pinch-hitting for flesh and blood, of amusing little leitmotivs in place of incisive motivations. There is not much organic development, and at times scenes dribble on or go flat. Again, there is even here too much sex, or needless talk about it, at times on the commercial rather than compulsive side. And there...
Bentley indicated two traits which distinguish the drama from the novel. The first, he said, is that drama moves at a "higher speed"; the second, that the audience can see the actors "in flesh and blood." Since they are sitting in the same room with the actors, they can be entertained without having to entertain in return, an "ideal situation...
Irma La Douce. A French musical as fetching and airy as a bouffant petticoat stars Elizabeth Seal, whose song-and-dance skill and saucy insouciance flesh out her personable part as everybody's dream tart...