Word: joyousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could take care of that too, for Hofmann was a born teacher. His knowledge of the convulsions of 20th century art was firsthand. He had known Picasso, worked alongside Matisse in sketch classes in Paris. Synthesizing such high-key colorism with cubism, he practiced and preached an intuitive, joyous abstract expressionism. His doctrine of "push and pull," by which he tried to reintroduce the tensions once created by depth perspective into the picture plane, flattened by modern artists, became the byword of abstract expressionism, and he himself became the movement's prime mentor. In his Red Trickle...
...lets you share his enjoyment. At times he flashes delicious notes on the screen to tell you how Anna Karina, will be very unhappy if she sleeps with Jean-Paul Belmonde, after her boyfriend, Jean-Claude Brialy, refuses to make her pregnant. The film soon becomes a joyous unbuckling of Godard's immense spontaneity as he plays with lights, editing, titles, and film speed. You leave the theatre stunned that anyone's mind could work so fast...
Peers' Delight. Well, actually, not all that unknown. Vogue last month devoted four pages to Photographer Irving Penn's black-and-white studies of fineboned, long-tressed Amanda from the shoulders up, and last year gave eight pages in color, titled "The Young Joyous Life," to Amanda and her 23-year-old Harvard and Columbia Law School student husband, S. Carter Burden Jr. For in the judgment of her peers, Amanda is a delight. A stepdaughter of CBS President William Paley, her mother is Babs Paley, one of Boston's famous Gushing sisters, herself on the best...
Male Companion. Movies about sex, like sex itself, thrive best on the illusion that an air of joyous improvisation covers a multitude of sins. In Companion, Director Philippe de Broca (The Five-Day Lover, The Love Game) again sets light-footed Jean-Pierre Cassel to dancing from escapade to escapade as inoffensively as a hummingbird buzzing the phlox...
...smaller parts varied widely in quality. As well as playing Mosquito, a sort of Andalusian sprite, Wendy Miller took two bit parts and was delightfully joyous in all of them. Frederick Davis, Larry Gonick, Ken Sateriale, and Peter McKenzie, as villagers of all sorts, ranged from fair to unfortunate...