Word: laocoonic
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...review of "The Laocoon Nobody Knows" and "The Bolts and Bars to Go," which opened last night at the Experimental Theatre, will appear tomorrow...
...work is an insistence that the nude is one of the most austere problems of design. The bulk of his analysis argues the continuity of this almost abstract design in the nude throughout Western art. He finds echoes of the design of the influencial classical works--Knidian Aphrodite, Laocoon, Apollo Belvedere, et al.--repeated and reworked, reasserting themselves after generations or even centuries. The most striking example of this that he gives is a comparison of a nude on a 4th century Greek mirror with a Picasso line drawing. Almost every gesture finds its antecedent and is copied and built...
...telephone cord. She employs her cigarette holder like a wind instrument, makes her gold scarf as vital to the production as several of the actors. She strikes attitudes so embattled that they seem to strike back, and she can dispose herself on a sofa to resemble the whole Laocoon group...
...expected U.S. industry to reconvert as fast as it had. No one expected that six months after V-J day, it would have produced so little. In big & little shops all over the nation, businessmen agonized, like Laocoon, in the coils of strikes, shortages or price troubles. Overall U.S. production was down to the levels of 1941, and the manufacture of many consumer's goods far below that. Last week Civilian Production Administration Boss John D. Small gave the latest box score on the output, and a miserable story it told. In January, before the steel strike had hobbled...
Some of the villagers (including Frank Lawton) escape, hold off the Nazis until the timely arrival of British troops. High spot: Fifth Columnist Banks dying like a dog, in the hammiest death throes since Laocoon...