Word: pumpkins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Decorative Futility? Although this split decision was diplomatically designed to please everybody, those few people who still think art prizes mean more than pumpkin pie awards at a county fair were hardly satisfied. Rio's O Globo labeled Burri's latest "the mere decorative futility of burnt holes in transparent plastic." Correio da Manha simply called the prizes "a scandal." Surely exaggerated, but the overall impact of the São Paulo Bienal was like that of most conventions-fatigue and confusion...
...Among them: onions, okra, radishes, lettuce, cabbage, kohlrabi, carrots, beets, tomatoes, rhubarb, sweet corn, potatoes, turnips, snap beans, squash, cucumbers, zucchini, sweet potatoes, musk melon, watermelon, strawberries, raspberries, eggplant, pumpkin, Brussels sprouts, parsley...
...appreciate the fairness of your report on my movie-reviewing career [May 14]. I should like to clarify one point: my description of the "cowlike creature" in The Pumpkin Eater applied to the character and not to Anne Bancroft, an actress I respect...
...wrote of Where Love Has Gone: "A trashy dose of sex-and-soap . . . being palmed off on us on the premise that we go to the movies to see smuttied-up, padded-out, mucked-down television serials in Technicolor and Techniscope." Of Anne Bancroft's performance in The Pumpkin Eater, she said: "She seems a cowlike creature with no aspirations or intellect above her pelvis...
...midnight, Princeton turned into a pumpkin...