Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study under Abstract Sculptor Constantin Brancusi in Paris. A consummate technician, Noguchi has variously turned his hand to fashionable portrait busts, abstract stone sculptures cut with a diamond saw, furniture, paper lanterns and stage sets. Since 1950 he has spent half of his time in Japan (where he married Screen Star Yoshiko Yamaguchi), concentrated on deliberately crude ceramic sculptures molded from the native earth, and modeled partly on prehistoric Japanese idols. The ceramics in last week's show were mainly semi-abstractions of figures and faces. They looked lumpish and exuberant at once-like the gingerbread cookies...
...believe all this, you will undoubtedly tingle with suspense every minute that The Stranger is on the screen. If not, you'll probably still enjoy laughing at the incredibly cold-blooded antics of Orson Welles and Edward G. Robinson, not to mention all the weird townspeople who are around to watch...
With its entertainers stretched from one end of Cinemascope to the other, There's No Business Like Show Business bristles with fast-paced song and dance routines that drag only when the projectors grind Marilyn Monroe across the screen. She is usually followed by a drunken Donald O'Connor, intent on being a nimble bad boy who dances with statues after Marilyn tires of the whole business...
Hollywood's big studios, after several lean years, were more interested in balancing the books than in weighing questions of art. And in fact, business looked encouragingly better at year's end. Three-D was dead, but the wide screen had caught the public fancy. And the policy, adopted last year, of producing only very big or very little pictures made generally for fewer and slightly better films...
...most cheerful trend of the year produced three whiz-bang musicals. Carmen Jones, which put the U.S. Negro in the Hollywood big time, charged the screen with black lightning; A Star Is Born, the three-hour musical version of 1937's big hit, set Judy Garland back on top of the heap as a musicomedienne; and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, a high old roister-doister of a show, in which the legendary rape of the Sabine women, as adapted from Stephen Vincent Benet, was reset (with concessions to the censor) in backwoods Oregon, was larded out with some...