Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The show is now going through a period of editing which, it is to be hoped, will spare such sketches as "Barnaby Beach," "The Old Soft Shoe," and "Kenosha Canoe" from the ravages of the blue pencil and will shelve some others that suffer from the sins of humorless vulgarity...
¶ Max Beckmann's grim, ghastly Descent from the Cross - an expressionistic night mare which might have been influenced by the 3rd-Century belief that Christ was the ugliest of men (because He bore the sins of the world in His body).
Sip, Sip, Sip. Young Ryder was not surprised when beautiful Lady Julia made noises like "a thin bat's squeak of sexuality" and became engaged to a rich Canadian, who gave her a tortoise with her initials set in diamonds on its shell. He was not surprised when his...
The first number, Herodiade, sounded almost as though Hindemith meant to atone for his atonalist sins. Explained he: "I am heading toward more simple treatment of harmonies and melodies." Of The Four Temperaments, Hindemith said: "I wrote it for Balanchine, but he never danced it. I don't know...
Maurice Dekobra, French novelist, specializing in svelte sex (Bedroom Eyes, The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars), foresaw the atomic destruction of almost everything except Tahiti, made out his will and sat down to await the end in Hollywood. He bequeathed his "17,000 books . . . paintings . . . works of art" to Tahiti...