Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic attribute of Western sculpture, that look of motion kept reappearing throughout the Met's show. It was present in Tullio Lombardo's 15th Century Adam and in Jean Antoine Houdon's 18th Century masterpiece, The Bather. A 20th Century example was the lie de France, a nude female torso by the late great Frenchman Aristide Maillol, who had gone so far as to imitate even the damages to classical sculpture by leaving off head, arms arid feet...
...16th Century view of the Judgment of Paris was classical in theme only. His illustration of the first beauty contest, in which Paris, after some difficulty, decided in favor of Venus, bristled with Gothic touches. Cranach had presented fast-stepping Mercury with an iron-grey beard, a studious look and a crystal ball instead of a golden apple. He had dressed Paris in the ponderous armor and plumed hat of a German prince, gave him an insufferably arrogant and calculating...
Like Cranach, Titian had taken his pick in the Greek Pantheon, but had added a sumptuousness of his own. His Venus and the Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth that no marble could match. Compared with Titian's, even such latter-day Technicolor Venuses as Lana Turner seemed somewhat anemic...
Renewed Faith. Without stopping the show, Farrell gradually had the whole thing restaged, scene by scene. Heartened by letters from some of his customers, he asked the reviewers to come back and take another look. Three of them felt up to it, but the verdict came out just about the same. At losses ranging from $15,000 to $23,000 a week, Farrell, who has watched almost every one of the 100 performances, stuck to his conviction that his show was the best musical on Broadway. As a visitor to Manhattan, he has seen every musical since 1914. Rich...
...tough problem. It had to look out for the well-being of the regular airlines, and the taxpayer who subsidized them, but it also had a duty not to stifle the free, enterprising spirit in which the nonskeds had been born...