Word: medium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Egyptian Theatre made comments on the picture. . . .An epic in comedy . . . Gloria Hale, his new leading lady, a most adept young actress . . . Good support by a comedian named Mack Swain . . . . An epic in comedy, written, directed, acted by a man who understands that the cinema is a medium of high art only because it can be used, as can no other medium, to express the illimitable diversity of life...
...oarsmen have turned newspapermen, and are publishing daily a paper of training camp news called "Gales Ferry Wow." The contributing oarsmen are also editors of the Yale Record and the Yale News, who have turned their hand to brightening the grind of the training camp through the medium of a humorous publication. Laughlin, stroke of the Yale crew, and also a cartoonist of considerable ability has made a decided hit with his caricatures...
There was no crowd and consequently no cheering as a dark-suited man of medium height, his left arm paralyzed and an audacious moustache surmounting a well-trimmed beard stepped out of an automobile to pay his respects to Dowager Queen Emma, mother of Queen Wilhemina, at the Soestdyk Palace...
...stock company, which was peculiarly strong in its juveniles and character parts, and proportionately weak in its leading men and women, light comedy was the happiest vehicle of production. Appropriately the St. James players have chosen just such a medium for their final appearance. "The Show Shop" leaves them at their best...
...descending streamers of bored rockets. They are the lines of Poet Cummings. Words, he realizes, have four dimensions?contour, connotation, color, sound. In ordinary poetry, the dray work of supporting the context and of conforming to the conventionalities of a pattern maim these values, render words absurd as a medium of meticulous art. Therefore, he arranges them in bizarre groups, droops them across a page, lets their meaning depend largely upon their effect as psychological images. That words can ever be used thus fastidiously is a doubtful hypothesis. Poet Cummings, in his wilder moments, imitates the young French decadents. Tired...