Word: namelessness
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...Wagner, Banker David Rockefeller, Actresses Zsa Zsa Gabor and Beatrice Lillie, and Playbore John Jacob Astor. But in general the crowd was so mousy that one society columnist was reduced to noting that ''one of the smartest dresses was a long wool plaid with jacket, on a nameless lady...
Some of the drawings in the Bremen show are portraits, but most are nameless nudes, many of them studies for future paintings. In the portraits, he proved that he could catch a subject's inner being, but his nudes go far beyond the limitations of the individual. U.S. Critic Peter Selz probably summed up Marées' contribution best when he noted that the artist always treated his nudes as "timeless creations of nature. Their significance is never that of the incidental but of some universal law." It was this quality that enabled Marées to span...
...other customers gasp with horror) Miss Jackson tantalizingly builds up a picture of a household besieged by anger from without and fear from within. Creating a cross-rough of curiosity-backward in time to whatever dreadful event has brought the Black-woods to their present predicament, forward to some nameless but newly foreshadowed disaster in the future-the book manages the ironic miracle of convincing the reader that a house inhabited by a lunatic, a poisoner and a pyromaniac is a world more rich in sympathy, love and subtlety than the real world outside...
Keilson traces the growth of hatred in his leading character as other writers trace love or self-knowledge. When a small child, the nameless hero gets his first inkling that he has an enemy. In hushed voices, his parents discuss a party leader called B., a thinly disguised Hitler who is rising to power by attacking a minority...
...marry a nameless woman whom he shares with a nameless lover? Befuddled, the bachelor turns for advice to a woman of the world (Françoise Prėvost), intelligent and dependably unemotional. Yet when he shows her a picture of the girl the woman suddenly turns pale and hurries away. Why? Obviously, the woman is the other dove in the nest. Not so obviously, she is also in love with the hero. Any other questions? The film answers them in passably explicit detail and with a sick romantic energy that Honoré de Balzac, who wrote the tale...