Word: grinder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gamy meat, and O'Neill served it raw. But after a trip through the production grinder, his scenes come out on film looking rather like a row of pretty little veal birds. The stark images of the play are softened on the screen to glossy blowups. The bare New England farmhouse looks like the dream cottage in a rural real-estate prospectus. The actors play in a welter of unrelated styles. But the most important trouble with the picture is that it was ever produced. O'Neill's characters are not people; they are symbols...
Alfred Kubin's two drawings, Edge of the World and Organ Grinder, are openly illustrative without being obvious. Next to the portraits by the much-praised Kokoschka with their hesitant drawing which often falls far short of any satisfying conclusion, Kubin's unpretentious drawings are refreshing. Nevertheless, whatever qualifications one makes in Kokoschka's case, his merits become evident when compared with the unhappy commercialism of Paul Kleinschmidt's At the Bar or Oskar Schlemmer's Three Figures...
...saying that "certain practical lessons have been learned about the consequences of the canal being out of operation." Jabbing his finger toward Macmillan, Labor's honey-voiced Aneurin Bevan demolished Lloyd with a single blow. "There is no reason to attack the monkey," sneered Bevan, "when the organ-grinder is present...
...going on around him. And often enough it was the the funny side of things that got his attention, in beseiged Madrid for instance, where Franco broadcasted each day the Falangists' dinner menus to the hungry loyalists, and where he and his friends would play Jimmie Lunceford's "Organ Grinder's Swing" all night to drown out the noise of the bombing...
...rather confused over the dichotomy in your article, "Tulla's Coffee Grinder," between real and pseudo Bohemians. From the information supplied, we imagine pseudo Bohemians to be analogous to a fake quick kick. Could you enlighten us further on this matter? Harry Brunner...