Word: kannon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expressive. Ascetic in the extreme, it set a tradition of simplicity which was to shape Japanese art right along. With increasing prosperity, the priests got professional artists to fill their temples with images of Buddha, his attendant deities and fierce guardian gods. Such masterpieces of sacred sculpture as the Kannon (opposite) translated the liquid flow of brush-drawing into bronze...
...familiar variety format as a showcase for some likable new talent. Starring Composer Hoagy (Stardust) Carmichael and directed by Sid Miller (who often plays literate TV comedy with Donald O'Connor), the Revue introduced a Martha Raye-type comedienne named Helen Halpin, rubber-faced Comic Jackie Kannon ( I studied dramatics under Senator McCarthy"), and, best of the lot, George Gobel, who deadpanned a funny monologue about a lost bowling ball. Some other changes this month...