Word: perfectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With this exposition out of the way in the first act, the authors are able to hit it from every angle. They go back into her former life twice, once to a stone cave and later to a Roman bordello. The dialogue is witty, and the characters are almost perfect: a confused critic as the lover, a comic secretary, a Helen Hokinson-like committee woman, a stuffy judge, and a refugee from The Cocktail Party. They are all played to the hilt...
Dioramas are the joint result of a patient group effort. Perfect shading of the background picture into the real soil of the foreground is the first essential in achieving realism. This and other near-perfections were accomplished by the artists who made San Francisco's new exhibits. The animals were shot by a Berkeley mining engineer and big-game hunter named Leslie Simson. He found a home for the carcasses at the academy, and when he died in 1940 left $100,000 to insure their proper display. Academy Director of Exhibits Cecil Tose, who did the taxidermy himself, directed...
Hofmann likes bare canvas. To him it is "a perfect expression of 100% volume." But he rips into the plain white with a bull-like energy. One slashing stroke or bright blob deserves another. Each changes the nature of the canvas, and therefore the strategy of attack. Hofmann describes the process as creating "push and pull on the picture surf ace." He insists it is no child's play; it requires "empathy in a psychoplastic and rhythmic sense...
...diameter. The wheels are placed on racks for six months of curing and aging, are rotated, washed and salted at proper intervals during this period. Not till the salt has permeated the whole wheel is the flavor right. Last week Brog's men figured the flavor was perfect in 1,200 Ibs. of cheese, and shipped off the first big batch for the Christmas trade...
...chance to display a light-comedy flair too often smothered by his material in the past. Actress Allyson's facile hands on the piano keyboard look surprisingly professional in a dubbed-in performance of Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor. And the film proves the perfect outlet for the little-girlishness that sometimes cloys in her grown-up roles...