Word: media
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William Lundigan as the ardent Northern doctor looks heroic, but his script and stage directions unfortunately give him little opportunity to displayed acting ability. Ethel Waters, portraying Pinky's grandmother, surmounts the Aunt Media-type casting to achieve some fine moments...
...collecting ideas for paintings from needlework, mosaics, carpets, runic stones, the scrawls of children and madmen. No matter how simple the material he borrowed, his perceptive, neurotic vision transformed it into something immeasurably sophisticated. He experimented endlessly with techniques, scratched designs on blackened glass, painted on burlap, mixed his media until it was impossible to describe a painting as oil, watercolor or tempera...
...suppose, it is quite good; and "Narcissus," because it is too hard to follow. The good ones, for my money, were "The Innocents," by Adrienne Rich '51 and "That Time Removes," by Anne Tolstoi '49. Both authors have a sure grip on the language they use, and on their media in general. Miss Rich's poem is particularly lucid, and she has created an image toward the end that is in itself one of the finest bits of writing to appear since the war in Cambridge's undergraduate literary magazines...
Word of mouth created such a demand for Attorney Gubin's report that he had it printed and sold in booklet form. In it he had written: "Traditional American methods of aggressive salesmanship and advertising in established media reaching European markets may spell the difference between success and failure in your ECA operations...
...return to Scotland (he was a British subject), because "apparently some people believed he knew too much." Porter had told some friends of attempts to blackmail him, and he was sure he was being shadowed. Other friends of Porter said he had booked passage on the liner Media, but had canceled it on sailing day, Aug. 6. They said he would have been a star witness in Countess Gizycka's suit to break the will...