Word: one-man
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...with his own immaturity-he developed his style invisibly along with his character. At last he produced some etchings that had a wholly new quality, the quality of himself. There followed a hesitant shower of equally exciting watercolors. and finally more oils. In 1924 he had his first one-man show of new work, which sold out. He married a painter named Josephine Nivison (who had also studied with Henri), shook the dust of commercial illustrations from his heels and began, at 43, the career he was born...
...comedians with Borge's talent for the piano, and no pianists with Borge's gift for comedy; moreover, with wit and fingers that are equally limber, he can travel first class in either company. In his second hour-long CBS appearance, Borge departed from his one-man show format, which earned him an 849-performance run on Broadway, to use a 42-piece orchestra -but he used it sparingly, and mostly as a collective straight man. On his own, Borge ran the comic gamut from a musician's parody of Bach to a mimic's spoof...
...somewhere, and each must face the problem of how to sink taproots in one locality, while at the same time raising his painting to a level that transcends mere reportage. Nowhere is the problem more difficult than under the empty vault of the great U.S. Southwest, with its endless horizons, dwarfing mountains and picturesque hangovers from the wild and woolly past. One of the new Southwest artists to face, and largely solve, this problem is Otis Dozier, 52, currently being hailed with a retrospective one-man show at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts...
Comedy in Music (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS). Victor Borge's one-man tomfoolery...
...leader of this experienced nucleus is Captain Ike Canty, the team's high scorer last season (324 points) and its one-man rebounder. Canty says he is 6-4, but he actually looks more like 6-3, and has difficulty in playing the pivot position against taller opponents...