Word: humored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...playing nearly every stock angle, Anniversary Waltz works for its humor at an exhausting pace. It would be surprising if the play failed to produce some extremely funny moments. The odds are for it. And because of its bright spots, the odds also favor the play with moderately successful prospects...
...What about the 38 in my shoulder holster?" I quipped, sensing the humor of the situation...
...publisher. Maryland's new column started off this week on a subject on which both she and her predecessor are undisputed experts: publishers' wives. Says Mrs. McCormick, with a touch of the outspokenness that has made her husband famous: "[Publishers' wives] have an excellent sense of humor ... All lords of the press take themselves very seriously, so [we] have taken the lines of least resistance and are gay . . . Most newspapermen think that they form public opinion. This is somewhat true . . . [but] perhaps these little-known wives have more power than is generally known. Is not the female...
...pictures, Tamayo has cut down on both the size (the current show includes the smallest canvases he has ever painted) and the violence of his work. He is now tempering with compassion and even humor the terror which he suggests by intense colors and dimly defined, erratic shapes. Tamayo can still terrorize, as in his Seized Cat, which shows an unworldly animal screaming and clawing in a frenzy of fury, but he seems now to want to avoid upsetting his audience. Heated Discussion, although done in disturbing flame reds, shows two comically human figures locked in eternal argument; each figure...
...personal roots. It reminds him of his arguments with David Siqueiros, who opposes Tamayo's work because it does not reflect the Marxist ideology which Communist Siqueiros insists is part of the Mexican heritage. Tamayo has also put some personal feeling−and a touch of his new humor−into Inexpert Smoker, which portrays a head gripping a pipe and surrounded with smoke, ashes and dizziness. Several years ago, Tamayo's wife bought him a pipe in London; he likes the feel of a pipe, but much smoking makes him turn green-sick...