Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time for a last fleeting bout of irresponsibility before Entering the Great World That Lies Before You. The members of the class of 1929 took off for a summer in Europe or a season of sailing with all the seriousness of a group of children setting out on a picnic. For, the world of June, 1929 was, if not an oyster, at least a picnic, a beautifully tranquil, world in which happy boys and girls romped under a gentle sun while the stock market rose in an always ascending curve...
...Lift of Courage. Asked for a comment on his first 16 months in office, one-third of his term, the President scratched his left ear and replied reflectively: He didn't enter this kind of task with any idea it was going to be a picnic. There are many frustrations. But you get inspirations that you hadn't expected...
...rich and poor, high, middle-and lowbrow: those who get their kicks from the beauty of the horse and the excitement of the race, those who look only at the tote board, those who find in the combination of these attractions all the attributes of a poker game, circus, picnic, athletic contest, suspense movie, as well as an escape from the lesser, daily race in office or factory. For those who do not see it at all, they have no argument, merely sympathy...
...course of true love never can run smooth, in this one, Management (John Raitt) Meets Labor (Janis Paige), Management Fires Labor, then, with a little more dexterous management, rehires and weds her. En route there are small blobs and faint glimmers of satire, the usual doings at shop and picnic grounds, and some wackily unusual ones in a chop-suey joint...
...reminiscent of the designs in petit-point footstool covers. Harmony shows two blonde maidens sitting together on a fringed sofa, both playing the same guitar. Prelude is an idyllic rural scene, with meadows, trees and a clear blue pond; a graceful boy and girl are about to eat a picnic lunch. In The Portrait, Kasiulis mildly lampoons his own profession he shows a grave, bearded artist painting a mirror-like portrait of a model gaily dressed in red and green. All of Kasiulis' paintings are done in a technique that uses a jet-black-underpainted background to accentuate...