Word: quip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fauves (or wild beasts, from a critic's derisive quip). The philosophy of painting that both groups followed was best summed up by an 1890 dictum of Theoretician and Painter Maurice Denis: "A picture, before being a horse, a nude, or some kind of anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors in a certain order." Although neither the Nabis nor the Fauves entirely abandoned the impressionist lessons of analyzing the fleeting scans of colored light rebounding from landscape, they flattened their tableaux and added vigorous, if vague and personal, symbolism to their work. In effect, they were...
...thigh. His approach varies little, for it needs no improvement. Later, getting a clear fix on Natalie's decolletage, he makes a pass in the offhand manner of a man who takes his love the way most people take after-dinner mints. But Actress Wood matches McQueen quip for quip, twitch for twitch, shrug for shrug, smile for winning smile. Both coruscate with the sparkly stuff of which movie stars are made, and their final clinch in front of Macy's Herald Square, proves again that after all is seen and done Hollywood still produces the best brand...
...mash-hit play this season is that it could have been a flop. The plot and one of the sight gags are middle-of-the-rut, but the comedy never bogs down because it keeps taking fresh and fanciful detours. Mike Nichols' direction and Neil Simon's quip hand are faster than the most jaded playgoer's recollective...
...were "Rab's Boys," the bright young back-room protégés whom Butler enlisted to help formulate policy. Among them: Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling, House Leader and Party Co-Chairman Iain Macleod, Lord Privy Seal Ted Heath. According to a House of Commons quip, "Rab gave Macmillan his brains...
French Playwright Anouilh has too often been dismissed as a kind of verbal dandy. Yet his underlying vision of life is dark and inconsolable. Anouilh's characters suffer with a quip on their lips while stretched on a rack that is the distance between the way things are and the way they want them to be. Anouilh is not interested in either ex posing or extolling his characters. He simply wants to catch them, and the audience, in the cruel toils of the human situation, masked, as it always is, with deceptive everyday smiles. Of The Rehearsal...