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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime ballet dancer, who gives up the stage for dress designing. To Producer Douglas, the critics' sneers seemed almost unAmerican. "Something's wrong in this country right now," says he. "With the beatniks and all, it seems fashionable to be a failure. In Sweet Success I'm going to show people who are successful because they worked hard, and people who live well because they enjoy...
Goodie's charter in broad: to discuss any "political aspects of the news" he chooses. He promised not to be dull. "I'll take the news each day and give an opinion about it and its relationship to California politics," he said. "I'm going to throw in interesting little political nuggets. Yes, sir, I'm going to give the viewers some fruitcake...
Physically Cheng seemed unaffected by his hermit's existence. But as Ann Arbor police hauled him off to the county jail, his four-year preoccupation with loss of face suddenly vanished. Said he: "I have been a coward. I'm glad I was found...
...colored lacquer, chipped, gouged and pumiced-gives the effect of eroded sculpture come hauntingly to life. They resemble certain Romanesque statues Golub saw while on a trip to Italy, but he claims never to "look back" or dissect. "Other painters are tearing man apart, but not me. I'm giving him a monumental image. I want man to survive...
WHEN U.S. Commodore M. C. Perry opened Japan to Western influence in 1853, he dealt a death blow in its own homeland to a waning but graceful and distinctively Japanese art-the woodblock print. But the clean, flat patterns of Japanese printers had a major influence on Western painters from Whistler to Matisse. A century later, the influence has been reversed. Japanese artists, freshly inspired by the works of European post-impressionists and abstractionists, are breathing new life into an old form...