Word: hangdog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pride of the Family (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC-TV) offers Old Vaudevillian Paul Hartman as a bumbling average man whose well-meaning efforts to do right by his wife (onetime Cinemactress Fay Wray) and two children create no end of confusion and misunderstandings. Hartman's memorable hangdog face and ability to make the most of his harassed-father role raises the show above the common level of television's glut of family comedies. Sponsors: Armour & Co. and Bristol-Myers...
From Tigers to Torsos. Up to 1905, Sculptor Matisse is reasonably realistic and plainly the student of Rodin. There is a precise, crouched Tiger done in tense, slashing planes, a half-sized Slave, weary and hangdog. His women are more expressionistic, seem more like mere sketches for future work. His nude Madeleine, Nude Leaning on the Hands and Reclining Nude in Chemise are roughly scooped out to emphasize a side-slung hip, the languid sag of a relaxed body...
Replete with hangnail character sketches and hangdog attitudes, Author Rawlings' revised Book of Job is a sententious smudge compared to her famed, finely drawn 1938 novel, The Yearling. "Writing is agony," Author Rawlings once confessed, but there was a time when her books didn't show...