Word: humor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Bill Maitland is a modern antihero, muddled by progress, maddened by the machine, and mangled by his acute awareness that he is irredeemably mediocre. With astounding authority, 28-year-old Actor Nicol Williamson draws all the caustic humor and curdling vituperation from John Osborne's words...
...SCENE, STARRING PETER NERO (RCA Victor). Hollywood seems to be making more indelible music than Broadway. Thunderball, Forget Domani, The Shadow of Your Smile and Ship of Fools provide a varied program for nimble Pianist Peter Nero, who keeps an orchestra at hand to buttress his moods, among them humor: What's New Pussycat? and Help! get full and funny treatment...
...Wistful, Cassatt sits in slight supplication, knees and wrists together, her eyes deflected in reverie, her hands holding playing cards like a fan. She was appalled that he depicted her with gambler's tools, but for all her chamber-music modesty, she was not without a sense of humor. She loved recounting Degas' remark as he admired one of her many mother-and-child scenes, "It has all your qualities and all your faults," he had said, unable to resist an acid aside. "It is the Infant Jesus and his English nanny...
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE. Bill Maitland is a modern antihero, muddled by progress, maddened by the machine and mangled by his all-too-painful awareness that he is irredeemably mediocre. With astounding authority, 28-year-old Nicol Williamson nets all the screeching humor and curdling vituperation from John Osborne's whirlpool of words...
Genius or Gimmickry? Film Maker Hans Richter calls kinetic art "the movement movement." He applauds its humor, which gives "us a feeling of liberation from the purposefulness of all the [machines] that condition our life." Yet he warns that since the machine expresses purposefulness, and art purposelessness, combining the two to make an art of motion is dangerous...