Word: floridity
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...Miller and Alan Bennett-in the satirical review Beyond the Fringe. Moore's most brilliant contributions were at the keyboard, in a lampoon of Myra Hess playing the "Moonlight"Sonata and in a hilarious, dizzy bit about a pianist who is unable to conclude a coda to a florid piece. The show played for four years to packed houses, first in London, then in New York. When it ended, Moore and Cook went on to do a television series and five movies, including Bedazzled, their zany version of the Faust legend. Their style was blithe, bizarre humor that turned...
Many student editors feel equally combative. Visually, their papers are often cluttered and oldfashioned, but they argue their cases with blunt headlines and florid, Buckleyesque prose. Most are far more interested in opinion than in news. Says Roger Brooks, editor in chief of Princeton's year-old Madison Report (circ. 2,500): "I believe in saying what I think." Paul Davies, president of the Stanford Review (circ. 1,000), agrees: "We are here to balance student debate." Because many papers begin as personal vehicles, some are short-lived. Those that survive may evolve: the University of Wisconsin...
...political skill that is far more important than whatever difficulties he created: the flexibility to modify his ideology and put together new coalitions. "All of us here to day are united by something bigger than political labels," he said last week as House Speaker Tip O'Neill, the florid av atar of old-style liberalism, stood by his side in the Americans." Rose Garden. "We are all Americans...
...vintage cartoon by Saul Steinberg shows a baroque room, all gold and curlicues; in it, a maestro is delicately prodding at a canvas filled with a grid of straight lines - a Mondrian, pure and polemical, red-yellow-blue-gray-white-black, utterly incongruous against the florid décor of the 19th century. How could Europe produce the painting within 70 years or so of finishing the room? That in effect is the question posed by "De Stijl, 1917-1931: Visions of Utopia," an exhibition that opened last month at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and will...
...going to compliment Ken Anderson and get away with it. Anderson, 32, hailed last week by a florid Cincinnati sportswriter as "Jack Armstrong come to life in a football uniform," is the classic aw-shucks hero, resolutely unquotable, eager to point out that he is merely one cog in the great Bengal machine. That machine indeed has some brilliant parts, finely tuned by its no-nonsense coach, Forrest Gregg. One All-Pro wide receiver, Veteran Isaac Curtis, has been joined by another, exuberant Rookie Cris Collinsworth. Pete Johnson, a.k.a. the human bowling ball, is a hard-hitting, if not overwhelming...