Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wise docent makes it clear at the start that "unfortunately there are no 'ten easy lessons,' no short cuts to developing a mature response to art." If his audience snickers in front of a picture or sculpture, the docent may attempt to restore the dignity of the occasion by quoting Director Alfred Barr Jr.'s neatly apologetic dictum: "We try to collect and exhibit whatever painting seems creatively significant; and if in the course of time one or two choices out of ten prove worthy, I believe the general selection is justified." That line is no help...
William Saroyan, who has been rather uncommunicative since the prewar days when he dashed off short stories between breakfast and lunch, broke into the San Francisco Examiner with a sad short-short, among the real-estate-for-sale ads: "Approximately 30-year-old well-built ranchhouse . . . 30 acres . . . No garage, no barn . . . heating apparatus out of order . . . 12-party line . . . no bus . . . plenty of squirrels. Owner paid only $32,000 . . . He is keeping six or seven acres for himself as a monument to his real-estate sharpness. Will sell balance for $35,000. If interested have head examined, or telephone...
...stunt pilot of painting, Picasso, now 66, has made some of the fastest, furthest flights, most resounding forced landings and crashes in art history. He can also, as the new Verve demonstrates, make short, slow, sweet canoe trips when he chooses...
...control, Olivier's performance is one of the most beautiful ever put on film. Much of the time it seems a great one. But a few crucial passages will disappoint some people. There is hardly a line that he speaks, or a gesture he makes, which falls short of shining mastery, in the terms in which he conceives the role. But the conception is in some important ways limited. It is clear that Olivier has a laudable distaste for the pompous, the pansy and the pathological Princes who have so often dishonored the poem. He sees-and plays -Hamlet...
Rational Sharpness. Short of such majestic challenges, Olivier is as sure in his work, and as sure a delight to watch, as any living artist. No other actor except Chaplin is as deft a master of everything which the entire body can contribute to a role; few actors can equal him, in the whole middle register of acting. He takes such little words as My father's spirit in arms! and communicates and is worthy of their towering poetry. He can toss off lines like For every man hath business and desire in a way to make Shakespeare congratulate...