Word: shading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dealers Work. Auctions sketch in the main outlines of art's price picture; it remains for dealers to shade in the details. The best dealers are men and women of experience and taste, heavily relied upon by the richest collectors-the Mellons, Morgans, Huntingtons, Fricks, Wideners and Kresses of the past, and the Rockefellers, Onassises, Fords, Lehmans and Chryslers of the present. History's most famous dealer was Joseph Duveen, who before his death, in 1939, sold art to many of the major collectors of London, New York and Paris. It is said that Lord Duveen spent...
...four parts are played in high comic style. Actress Presle portrays without pity the labored cuteness, the varicose ardors of the nymph at 40. Actress Seberg achieves exactly the right matte shade of skin, the look of slightly tainted meat that suggests and ever so slightly caricatures the girl who sleeps around. Actor Perier interprets to absurd perfection the sort of paterfamiliarity that breeds contempt. And Actor Cassel flutters across the screen with the abandon of a butterfly that, without hope of heaven, can at best expect to spend eternity in a cocktail tray...
...watch March and Campbell shade in the lights and shadows of this relationship is to see something like acting genius at work. March hisses and rumbles like an active volcano, and his "I am the Lord" is an eruption of molten lava. At times, March seems to take an actorish delight in playing the Lord, but he is awesome when, with magnetic all-seeing eyes, he probes for Gideon's soul in a speck of human dust. Douglas Campbell can be a simple-minded oaf one minute and a Judaic Henry V the next, and his voice ranges even...
...buying spree that sent the stock market charging up. On one day alone, a record 1,360 issues were traded on the New York Stock Exchange, well over 6,000,000 shares changed hands, and the Dow-Jones industrials index climbed 9.14 points to 723.74-just a shade below its alltime peak of 726.53 in early September. At week's end, still on the rise, the market...
Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson (1824-63) : "Let us cross over the river and sit under the shade of the trees." Ronald Knox (1888-1957), English cleric: asked if he would like to hear a passage from his own New Testament, answered faintly, "No," lapsed into unconsciousness, and then just audibly: "Awfully jolly of you to suggest it, though...