Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...William Blake: "Like Blake, I rewrite the Bible in my mind and then use my interpretation for my work." Biblical or not, the sculptures always carry a message, and they do so in a strange mixture of whimsy and anguish. The Gleaner (see opposite page) could be merely a grim glimpse of an old peasant woman bending to her daily drudgery, but Underwood had a more cheerful inspiration. "What would a woman want to be doing gleaning ears of corn?" he asks. "She is picking up a man. Look at the text: 'And her hap was to light upon...
...Italian Chronicles, about an aging Venetian duchess who gets even with her handsome, young, philandering lover by having him chased by a band of cutthroats. He finds momentary sanctuary in a church where a funeral is in progress. But when he discovers the funeral is for him (a grim whimsy of the duchess'), he runs out and is run through by the bully boys. The duchess' crime does not pay: her rival sneaks into her boudoir and sprinkles her beauty mask with some awful acid. The segment ends with the loudest shrieks since Fay Wray met King Kong...
...responsibility borne by you for the preservation of peace throughout the world, which you have shown. I understand very well your anxiety and the anxiety of the people of the U.S. in connection with the fact that the weapons which you describe as offensive are in fact grim weapons. Both you and I understand what kind of weapons they...
Behind the façade of normalcy, grim business proceeded. The Chaika limousines of Moscow's top officials rolled in and out of the Kremlin as the Council of Ministers met. Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky put his vast air, sea and land force on a state of alert. None of this could disguise the fact that, stage by stage, Khrushchev was backing away from conflict. His offer of a deal with the West told the astonished Russian public for the first time that Russian missiles were in Cuba. His agreement to withdraw them was of course hailed...
...incongruous interlude, U.N. delegates gathered in their auditorium last week to celebrate the 17th United Nations Day. The program: Tchaikovsky and Beethoven, played by the touring Leningrad Philharmonic. Before the concert, a grim joke made the rounds, to the effect that the Leningrad orchestra had canceled and President Kennedy had sent in the U.S. Marine Band from Guantanamo. In the corridors, there was much self-conscious gallows humor. A diplomat would say, "See you tomorrow - if there is a tomorrow." Or "Uganda will be admitted to the U.N. Thursday-if there is a Thursday...