Word: quilting
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...friends of Werner Gilles, who died last year at the age of 66, recalled this story last week not to do his memory injury but simply to help explain the large retrospective on display at the Academy of Arts in West Berlin. The colors Gilles used were often crazy-quilt bright; but the apparent gaiety of his paintings is deceptive, for the glowing landscapes and childlike figures are always haunted. To Gilles, fantasy and reality were one and the same thing. Gilles was, says an old friend, "on everyday terms with the hinterside of life...
...ought not to enter this political thicket." This ruling, wrote Justice Tom Clark in concurring with the majority last week, has "served as a Mother Hubbard to most of the subsequent cases." By its latest decision, the Supreme Court has merely opened the cupboard door. It holds that crazy-quilt systems of legislative apportionment may violate the 14th Amendment to the Constitution requiring "equal protection of the laws." In his dissent, Justice Frankfurter, who was joined by Justice John Marshall Harlan, urged "complete detachment, in fact and appearance, from political entanglements." Wrote Frankfurter: "There is not under our Constitution...
...director at the Loeb is a roaring success. The play is a happy choice, the superb cast is rigorously trained--even to the near-uniformity of its brogue--and a monumental, yet graceful set is perfect in all its details, down to the last dusty bottle and patched quilt...
...paintings on display in the drugstore window in the town of Hoosick Falls, N.Y., were as bright as a calico dress, gay as an old-fashioned quilt-bustling scenes of country folk doing everyday chores. The artist was obviously untrained, but to Manhattan Collector Louis Caldor, who spotted them and bought them for an average of $4 each, they had a kind of magic. Who had painted them? An old lady of 78, Caldor was told, who lived down on Cambridge Road. She was Anna Mary Robertson Moses, and from that moment until she slipped quietly into death last week...
Sometimes an imaginative Orson Welles turns out a modern-dress Julius Caesar that amounts to something more substantial than a set of gimmicks tucked into a quilt of comfortably literary allusions. Mostly, though, a director doing modern-dress, colloquial Shakespeare is seduced by the cheap and easy thrills he can tickle out of his audience simply by staging a series of recognition scenes. "Ah," the people exclaim with delight, "the riveter's wife is Lady Macbeth!" And if the director is lucky, no one in the theatre will pause to ask, "So what...