Word: reworks
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...strongly enough plugged. Some critics have objected that the sitters are not aristocratic enough; one letter flatly comments on the "common-looking" individuals portrayed. Rockwell himself says: "I put everything I had into them, but they could all stand more work." He wants especially to rework Freedom of Worship and Freedom from Want. The latter is perhaps weakest: Rockwell's acquaintance with want is decidedly impersonal...
Others thought that after the typical Fitzgerald ending of Fitzgerald's life, a Fitzgerald novel reworked by somebody else might come as something of an anticlimax. They wondered who could rework it anyway. Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), Fitzgerald's great & good friend, for whose literary recognition he generously pled in his introduction to the Modern Library edition of The Great Gatsby, was dead too. At the home of Nathanael West and his wife, Eileen McKenney, Fitzgerald attended his last party (and his first in many a day) on Friday, Dec. 13. Day after Fitzgerald died...
...face. Says he: "Surrealists and modern abstractionists run the risk of producing nothing but a series of colored symbols." Rumored to be a protege of Gertrude Stein's, he has in fact seen her only once, when he did a sombre Portrait, whose hands he had to rework ten times before they satisfied...
Director Capra went to work with typical Hollywood opulence. He bought the original manuscript, gave it to Scenarist Robert Riskin to rework, devised one of the most magnificent sets in cinema history. He had the good judgment to leave the story almost exactly as it was written and the skill to match Author Hilton's verbal talent with pictorial subtlety. After this week's opening, most critics held Lost Horizon as fine a cinema as it is a book. Its one flaw is Director Capra's one major deviation from the novel-a happy ending...