Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trying to Be Clear. Hurd keeps a changing show of other men's art in his studio (last week it was pictures of Picasso's ceramics), says that he has "no quarrel with any school of painting." At 45, he describes himself as "looking inside, trying to be clear as to what I want to say. There are a lot of young painters coming along now that seem to have no idea about that. They either feel they must paint every hair on nature's lip or deny the whole works...
Burra's fifth one-man show, opening in London's Leicester Galleries last week. made suitably weird use of such source materials. His thick-painted water colors ("I mix my paints with spit, mostly") represent public places from Mexico City and Harlem to Limerick and Toulon, all swarming with grinning monsters from every age. Peering happily at one representative specimen, the pale little painter with the pointed nose giggled: "Isn't that horrible? It gives me a turn. I thoroughly like...
...broke all the TV rules & regulations on this show," says Lord. "The camera doesn't shift around, it stays on people's faces. The only time it moves is to show the bag of their trousers or the length of a sleeve. The courtroom is only in there for conflict-I wanted just to look at people's faces...
...basis of his radio successes, Lord's new show can probably look forward to a profitable run. But Lord will no longer have anything to do with it. Back in his early days in radio, he sometimes wrote and directed as many as four shows at once. Today, as soon as a show is under way, he leases it to anyone who wants it-a network, advertising agency or another producer...
...screen for the fifth time, and Lord-satisfied with its format-has turned it over to ex-Movie Director Ed Sutherland, who will run it for NBC. Heading north to his 3,000-acre island off Mt. Desert in Maine, Lord carried with him the idea for another TV show. "I'm going to call it Sidewalks of New York," he said. "It might open just showing people's feet as they walk along, or maybe just their heads. And I'll show reflections of people's faces in store windows...