Word: fools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fool-the-eye realist, Albright paints each object in the light most flattering to it. To paint the whole picture in a single light would make it "static," he believes. Another Albright idea 5 to paint different objects at different angles. He will turn the canvas upside down to paint a bottle on a bureau, then turn it sidewise to paint the bureau. At first glance, everything in his pictures seems well anchored in space; at a second glance things start spinning...
...pack in small parcels has always been the hallmark of a fool...
...Chamberlain: "The fault of Chamberlain was not in sacrificing Czechoslovakia, but in believing that Nazi aggression and Hitler's long record of perfidy would thenceforth come to an end. It was Chamberlain's sincerity, not his villainy, which led him astray. His crime was to make a fool of himself, and therefore...
...much to the good. To the bad are the occasional studied lapses of taste and, more important, the eerie sense a Hitchcock audience has of reacting in a manner so carefully foreseen as to seem practically foreordained. "It makes you want to fool him by reacting some other way," said another moviemaker, "but you can't. You're condemned to enjoyment...
...salt water, with food, wine and making love, and with the remorse which is the shadow of that sun." Serving up life as if it were a huge platter of prosciutto and melon, the Italian authors offer highly palatable reading on such subjects as the folly of an old fool in love (Pratolini's A Mistress of Twenty, Italo Svevo's This Indolence of Mine), the dark rapture of revenge (Cesare Pavese's The Leather Jacket), and the metaphysical pingpong of illusion v. reality (Luigi Pirandello...