Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traffic swirled around the Plaza Bolivar; Christmas shopping was off only slightly. The Venezuelan idol, Luis Sánchez ("El Diamante Negro"), dispatched his quota of bulls in the Nuevo Circo bull ring, the horses made their customary circuits of the Hipódromo race track, and I've Always Loved You played to full houses at the Lido Theater...
...staging a show last week that paired ancient distortions with modern distortions-and implied that both were good. A paleolithic fetish 77,000 years old and shaped like a bunch of grapes made Gaston Lachaise's blimpish Standing Woman (1932) look a comparatively svelte great-granddaughter. A Canaanite idol dated 1000 B.C. seemed a more attenuated ancestor of Wilhelm Lehmbruck's Standing Youth, done in 1913 (see cuts). The horse in Picasso's Guernica was no more or less weird than the deerhead mask beside it, made for a Central American Indian rite...
With mock horror, Shaw recalls the dreadful results of Darwinism. Having once rejected the fundamentalist notion that "the universe is the work of a grotesque tribal idol described in the book of Numbers as God, who resolves to destroy the human race, but is placated by the smell of roast meat," the Darwinians decided that "the 39 articles were reduced to absurdity . . . Hell was abolished. Jehovah was exposed as an impostor whose real name was Jarvey . . . Talk of emptying the baby out with the bath! . . . Herod's massacre of the innocents was a joke in comparison...
Even in 1919, when Anna Gosko got her first look at him, Adolf Balaban was no matinee idol. He was an awkward, wistful little fellow with a flat face, jug ears, and old-country manners. He wasn't the smartest man in the world, either. He had been "over" from Poland for six years, had served in the U.S. Army during World War I. He had a laborer's job in a Brooklyn sugar refinery, but he could speak hardly a word of English...
That was the story the arresting officers told popeyed reporters when they hauled the quartet to the Los Angeles county jail. A star of the first magnitude and an idol of organized bobby-soxers who call themselves the "Bob Mitchum Droolettes," the 31-year-old actor talked his head off in a mixture of remorse and forced humor...