Word: gotham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours. It will take months to sift the stacks of data they gathered. Tripp gave his verdict the moment he was saved by the clock: "You can't stay awake alone. You need someone there to keep telling you, 'Up, boy, up.' " See MEDICINE, Sleepless in Gotham...
Commenting on Santa Fe's Opera company, the Met's Rudolf Bing says: "Where is Santa Fe [Oct. 13]?" Suggest this Gotham hick find out. He may want to hire opera talent there some day. For most good things, including baseball, are headed west...
...been a long time since grey Gotham saw a labor leader who actually punched a time-clock and went to work in a uniform. Abe Stark, Brooklyn's substitute for mayor, set the familiar monolith into action. The City of New York slapped an injunction on the Motormen, and threatened Theodore Loos with jail...
Tricks & Skids. Willem de Kooning's Gotham News uses just about every trick in painting, except illusion, to create excitement. It is juicy à la Rubens, gaudy à la Delacroix, emphatic à la Vlaminck -and utterly ambiguous. Being too agitated for the purposes of either decoration or contemplation, De Kooning's canvas reaffirms the abstract-expressionist credo that the very effort of painting is what paintings should be about. The observer's glance is led to skid here and there in the calculated mess like brush strokes; looking at the picture is supposed to re-create...
...with his mink at 4 a.m. on the crosstown, and a lot more salt than the lox in Lindy's. It was not really Runyon, just as Runyon was not really Broadway, but as a pinstriped fairy tale with garlic on its breath, it made an honest-to-Gotham hit, and it ran for three years...