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...fanatically artistic spell by taking clear, cold, head-on pictures of ordinary people and things. "After Stieglitz's real work was done," says Realist Evans, "he became a very arty old man and a Wagnerian man if there ever was one-a great old fiddler and lace-maker." Evans' realistic approach has inspired a generation of photographers, among them Margaret Bourke-White, who first made her mark photographing industry, and Dorothea Lange, who photographed California's migratory pea-pickers to show the effects of the Depression. Echoing the early Weegee, Evans says: "Photography is for the record...
Like many unregal newlyweds, Paul and Frederika spent their first married years in obscure battle with the household budget. King George II never hung so much as a new set of lace curtains in the palace without shopping every store in Athens to find a proper bargain. In Paul's small villa at Psychiko outside Athens. Frederika's time was mostly taken up by caring for her babies, making over old clothes, and poring over the accounts to see if Paul's allowance might stand inviting a few close friends to dinner...
Televiewers on hand for the return of NBC's Your Show of Shows caught a new sister act in the making: the Metropolitan Opera's Coloratura Lily Pons and rubber-faced Comedienne Imogene Coca. Wearing sequined black lace and looking enough alike to be sisters, they kicked up their heels and scampered through a lusty, full-throated lampoon of Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe warbling When Love Goes Wrong in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...
Their orchestration is highbrow, including a lot of counterpoint, but every Sauter-Finegan arrangement has either a palpable atmosphere or a clear story line or both, without ever tripping over its danceable rhythm. With the precision of a Marine parade and the grace of a lace handkerchief waving on the sidelines, the big band runs through a notably moist version of Rain, a playful Midnight Sleighride, a dreamy April in Paris. Jazz-wise listeners only had an occasional sense of too much novelty for its own sake...
...Babbitt, Main Street and other novels, Sinclair Lewis broke through the lace curtain of gentility and poured satiric wrath on the American Yahoo-but later he failed to realize that the fight he had fought was over and won. In his articles he kept shadow-boxing at opponents he had knocked out years before, and perhaps it was this tedious concentration on the bogies of his youth that made his later books seem like watery rewrites of his best work...