Word: manner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experiencing unprecedented popularity; his Three or Four Shades of Blues (1977) sold over 50,000 records. But Charles Mingus had seen too much to become the grinning elder statesman of post-war jazz--he was far too scarred and too bitter to become America's darling in the manner of a Louis Armstrong...
...storytellers. Modern art was supplied with mythmakers, from Picasso to Barnett Newman. But it had few masters of the narrative impulse, and Magritte, a stocky, taciturn Belgian, was its chief fabulist. His images were stories first, paintings second, but the stories were not narratives in the Victorian manner, or slices of life or tableaux of history. They were snapshots of the impossible, rendered in the dullest and most literal way: vignettes of language and reality locked in mutual cancellation. As a master of puzzle painting, Magritte had no equal and, although his influence on the formation of images...
...expressionist slather. The Gorgon, 1943, a wretched parody of Monet applied to a surrealist syntax, may be the least inept of these. If anything, they showed how far Magritte's real gifts lay from the orthodox processes of modernism. Nor did his first essays in the surrealist manner, done in 1925-26, indicate much about the artist to come; they are, for the most part, grab bags of motifs from other painters, chiefly Ernst and Giorgio de Chirico...
...abuse these conventions, which are for the most part understated, glanced off. The emphasis is on believable performance. In the leading role, Lynn-Holly Johnson, 19, formerly with the Ice Capades troupe, is more than adequate both skating and acting. She is slender and winsome in the manner of other young gymnasts, dancers and skaters who have lately captured the public's imagination and whose seeming fragility so interestingly contrasts with their fierce determination and dazzling technique...
...better. After a minute break. Porter in white, black bra strap sliding down her arm, launches into a gutsy chat about her lost gloves, her almost lover, and her father's death. Here she has a character to play, and she plays it for all its worth. Her streetwise manner and stance never break as she cracks her jokes, and snares a light for her cigarette from a man in the audience, yet she is suddenly vulnerable remembering the pointlessness of her father's death. We can forgive her occasional stumbling, as she catches us up in her life...