Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...selection of 96 world leaders in his best-selling (41,000 copies at $17.50) Portraits of Greatness, which was published last winter. Sir Winston Churchill alone still appears twice-in the celebrated 1942 defiant portrait that Karsh achieved by audaciously snitching the grumpy Churchill's cigar from his mouth, and in a 1955 elder statesman pose. "Sir Winston is the greatest man in a thousand years," says Karsh...
...Hanna and Barbera are turning out more footage in two weeks than the cartoon departments of the major studios used to complete in a year. They do it by concentrating on simple closeups, avoiding elaborate backgrounds, and following such short cuts as reducing all speech to nine basic mouth movements...
...determined to force his wife to melt into it. The members of the clan jolly her with well-meant but offensive pleasantries ("Beware, madame! You're too slim; we like them well covered"); one old aunt shows her joy at their visit to her house by filling her mouth with orange water and squirting them with it. Marie resents the dirty restaurants, and he gets even by suggesting a local delicacy, grilled sheep's testicles. Before long, he manages to devise a hurt to meet each of her objections. During one of their recurring fights...
...event, Miss Baez sang with the casual magnificence that is well known to Cambridge audiences. She sings without ever forcing a note, jes' letting that cool voice float out of her sligtly open mouth. Although the humorous songs in the Baez canon are superb; the quieter ones are even better, and Mary Hamilton, which Miss Baez sings softly with very little modulation in volume, was clearly the high point of the evening...
...nouveau, Gustav Klimt. But beneath the decorative quality which was art nouveau, one begins to see the real Schiele pushing through. As is typical in Schiele, a minimum of slightly wavy lines describe the body in an almost skeletal form. The head is tossed back and the mouth rounded into a long wail. Though it lacks the conviction of future self-portraits, the drawing predicts the increasingly tortured expression to be found in Schiele's work...