Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Groveling Subjects. Mwata Yambo XXIV had been a progressive sort who encouraged tribal children to attend school and urged males to work instead of loafing while wives labored. He spoke French, got along well with Europeans. His successor displays no such interest in 20th century manners. He is suspicious of...
Unfortunately, the Williamses flourish the needle of humor without jabbing it into any rich vein of comedy. An artificial drawing-room comedy can nurture an earthy home truth. But To Love spouts more poppycock about the parent-child relationship and child rearing than has been heard since Bertrand Russell ran...
Trained as a painter, Kurosawa got interested in the movies because they seemed to him unnecessarily stupid. Rashomon was his tenth picture, and since Rashomon he has produced a relentless succession of masterpieces. Seven Samurai (1954), considered by many the best action movie ever made, is a military idyl with...
Inside Voice. The program has much of the iron charm of the schoolmarm: "Tony, you want to remember your Romper Room manners, honey." It also has a celebrated prop, the Do Bee and Don't Bee blackboard, with two big wooden bees on the top and a fresh message...
Enduring Trace. Unlike the unnatural sugar-dolls of lesser rococo porcelain artists, Bustelli's figurines show a keen eye for the actual. Especially prized in his own time was his 16-piece series of figures from the commedia dell' arte, the endless, semi-improvised popular comedy in which...