Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed it, Kiesler was commissioned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art to carry out his still-revolutionary idea in model form. He secluded himself in his Greenwich Village loft, spent month after month brooding, sketching, constructing. The end result is bound to surprise even those who know him. Anchored to its supporting columns as lightly as a dirigible, Kiesler's "Endless House" looks more like a cloud than a building...
Monevman Darvas' methods would raise the eyebrows of most Wall Streeters. Instead of studying what Wall Street calls the fundamentals-price-earning ratios and dividends-he judges public enthusiasm, a method that works best in volatile markets. "In my dancing I know how to judge an audience," he says. "It is instinctive. The same way with the stock market. You have to find out what the public wants and go along with it. You can't fight the tape, or the public...
...earlier Giono novel, The Horseman on the Roof (TIME, Feb. 1, 1954), showed how young Angelo had lived through a cholera epidemic and learned how theatrically men often behave in the face of death. What he still does not know, for all his experience, is that he is the hand-picked tool of some shrewd leftist Italian conspirators-political stage managers who are using him to inspire and excite the crowd. To the conspirators, Angelo is a mere straw man whose ultimate "destiny is to be burned. "All that is asked of him," says a plump rebel plotter named...
...theme is as complicated as it is fascinating. Most of the characters think they are acting like real people, but they are in fact propelled by theatrical impulses, and are acting out a glamorous melodrama entitled "Liberty"; as a result, it is often impossible for the reader to know what is actually happening. Nor does Author Giono try much to clarify this Pirandelloesque confusion, which he obviously regards as a principal factor of human life-fantastic but unresolvable. Impossible to plumb in small details, The Straw Man, with its superbly painted backdrops of Italian cities and countryside, is unforgettable...
...Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green. This talented pair has a ball doing movie parodies, songs, dances and clever patter. They know their stuff; they wrote...