Word: grotesquesness
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When Sherwood Anderson wrote Winesburg, Ohio, he was trying, he said, to convey "a new looseness [ of ] lives flowing past each other.'' His stereopticon smalltown grotesques were translated with difficulty to me legitimate stage. But last week at the Jacob's Pillow (Mass.) Dance Festival, they took...
Tomtomfoolery. From Horatio Alger, Satirist West moved on to Hollywood, where he had worked as a script writer. Apart from the usual film-colony grotesques, The Day of the Locust parades witless cowboys, actors, emotional cripples, dwarfs and a memorably mindless, chrome-pated sexpot. It ends in madness and violence...
Reynaud is an honest, able man. His financial policies were more sensible than most. He could envision something of what a war of movement and armor would do to France's static infantry. Above all, he knew that Hitler was not Kaiser Wilhelm I, "the old gentleman who took...
Like all but the greatest grotesques, The Rose Tattoo sets out so furiously to heighten the flavors of reality that the meat of the thing is soon lost in its seasoning; and only a moviegoer who can take his peperone straight will be able to judge if the picture is...
In terms of virtues and faults, Golden Boy is like something in a child's drawing book, where the picture is already printed and only the coloring is the child's own. Down here, up here, in that corner, with this detail, Odets' coloring has fine individuality...