Word: sentimentale
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For all his wealth of sentiment, there is little sentimental about Koerner, and the America he pictures in kaleidoscopic fashion is more disturbing, all in all, than delightful. Future generations may well debate how much of this disturbing quality was in the man and how much in the nation.
Nursing a bruised ego and a gift for sketching, the 21-year-old Whistler embarked for Paris and the studio of French Painter Gustave Courbet. From Courbet he acquired his early brush strokes, his first model-mistress, Eloise, and a point of view: "Beauty is truth." This creed spurred the...
Post-Office Immortal. In his last years, Whistler was racked by debts, and fought a losing battle of telegraphic wits with Oscar Wilde. Whistler's best was the telegram he sent to the church where Wilde held his wedding: FEAR I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO REACH YOU IN...
I suppose the Russians exported The House I Live In to prove that family life among the Soviets is no different from family life anywhere else in the world. They have, unfortunately, also proved that warm, sentimental tear-jerkers are mediocre in any language. The Sovexportfilm is not really dull...
From the opening tableau of the Gentlemen of Japan, looking like refugees from the Kabuki dancers, the staging is in every way impressive. Aided by a magnificent set by James Peters, Sarah Sweezy's beautiful costumes, and choreography by Elizabeth Theiler, the visual aspect of the play is quite stunning...