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William Saroyan's Time of Your Life shocked many with its unstructured style when it debuted in the fall of 1939. The play still comes as a surprise today even though its hard realism may seem time when compared to more recent plays. Saroyan shows us a depressing series of life slices all in the setting of a West Coast bar. Throughout the play he has us jump from pinball players to phone callers to despondent bar stoolies. Miraculously he brings all of them together at the play's conclusion...
...Italian prints span styles from the ex-Futurist Carlo Carra's surprisingly static "The Acrobats," to the Surrealis precursor Giorgio de Chirico, who by 1921 had also reverted to a more academic style. De Chirico had switched from his earlier eerie, suspended space and stifled-emotion realism to a less exciting neoclassicism...
Died. James Chapin, 88, American painter; of an apparent heart attack; in Toronto. Chapin's spare, muscular style, which he called "environmental realism" developed during five years of sketching the Marvins, a hardscrabble New Jersey farm family he lived with in the mid-1920s. Beginning in 1955, he painted dozens of TIME covers, including Adlai Stevenson, Jawaharlal Nehru, Boris Pasternak and Edward Hopper...
...paintings of social-realist cliches at the dictation of unnamed 'drillmasters.' No such body of work by Kline exists. To support his thesis, all Wolfe can produce is one picture from the 40s-and even it is too expressionist to fit the strict canon of social realism...
...discuss everything from matters of state to whether or not to breed the family's female golden retriever, Liberty. (The decision: the dog has been flown to Oregon to be bred with a record-holding stud.) Properly minimizing his influence, Jack sums up his role with typical Ford realism and restraint: "All I can do is open up ideas to him, and maybe have an effect that...