Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deadheads. On the other hand, the railroads were not doing so badly on passengers as the figures seemed to show. Of 1948's loss on passenger business, fully two-thirds-$373 million-was incurred by hauling mail, express and baggage cars, rather than passengers. Many railroaders think that baggage cars-holdovers from the days when most travelers carried trunks-should be abolished, and mail pay increased. The railroads got only $26 million last year for carrying 95% of U.S. non-local first-class mail, while the airlines got $46 million for the remaining...
...Haitian primitives had some extraordinary subject matter to draw on-tropical market places, voodoo rites and deities, scenes from the black nation's bloody history. But the most effective pictures in last week's show were those that made no effort to be beautiful and that sacrificed the esoteric for the immediate. Préfète Dufaut's childlike Harbor at Jacmel was as flat, bright and familiar as any postcard, and Wilson Bigaud's self-portrait behind bars had the harshness of a flashbulb photo. Even these, standouts though they were, lacked most...
Vodka & Coffee. Last week seven such surprise eggs went on display in a Manhattan gallery. They highlighted a glittering show, drawn from museums and private collectors in the U.S., which had been arranged to coincide with publication of a handsome, expensive and definitive study of Fabergé and all his works: Peter Carl Fabergé (Batsford; $35). The exhibition included everything from coffee pots to vodka cups, from imperial seals to paper knives, and from jeweled flowers in crystal vases to a green jade Buddha that nodded its head and wagged its ruby tongue...
...handsomest egg in last week's show was carved out of rock crystal. Inside it was a golden tree, and perched in the tree was a peacock which, when removed and placed on a table, strutted, turned its head, and folded and unfolded its fanlike emerald tail. The last Fabergé egg to be presented to the Czarina (in 1916) was prophetically grim: made of blackened steel and poised on four bits of shrapnel, it contained only a miniature painting of the Czar and Czarevitch Alexis with staff generals on the Eastern front. Two years later the imperial family...
...terrapin-eyed old girl of 50 who admires ballplayers ("We do sell them sometimes, lady, but only to other teams"). Arno likes best the gagless, slapdash sketches of clowns and nudes with which he has padded out his book, even hopes to hang them in a "serious" one-man show later this season. But he admits that he finds his fans (and the editors of The New Yorker, where most of his work appears) unrelenting. "They have to have a joke," he says sadly, "or they want no part of it." Platter buyers will quickly...