Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nagged by the thought that he might become typed as a ventriloquist and some day go stale, Winchell began taking on straight acting roles ("I want to become so flexible that I just can't get into a rut"), today does a weekly seven-minute dramatic sketch midway in his comedy show. He turns down most offers to guest-star his ventriloquist act on other television programs, but he keeps an ear cocked for calls for Paul Winchell, actor. It's not that he doesn't have enormous affection for his wooden pal Jerry, but he asks...
Visitors from 90 foreign countries seemed to agree. So many sharp-eyed Japanese and Germans armed with sketch pads and cameras crowded around that some of the exhibits were hastily snatched back into shelter...
...sharpness, but with none of the Martini's soothing effects. His subjects are full of ferocity and strain. He likes best painting roots, insects, husks, stumps, and most of all, thorns, isolating and enlarging them in his canvases as if he were painting monumental portraits. Beginning with a sketch from nature, Sutherland transforms it into a half-abstract reconstruction of a half-recognizable object...
...used older-sister cajolery, and Julius had given money ("Money is no object," Julius had said, explaining that it came from "friends") to persuade David and his confused wife Ruth to join the treasonable conspiracy. Later, Yakovlev conveyed the commendation of his masters in Moscow for Greenglass' sketches: "Extremely excellent and very valuable." At the Rosenberg trial, a U.S, atomic expert, examining a duplicate sketch drawn by Greenglass, testified that it showed the atom bomb substantially as perfected. And he meant the improved wartime Abomb, the implosion type used at Nagasaki...
...jealous of her husband's affection for his pet cat. Pride, directed by Claude (Devil in the Flesh) Autant-Lara, is a mordant study of an impoverished, aristocratic mother and daughter (well played by Franchise Rosay and Michele Morgan). The best episode is Gluttony, a Rabelaisian sketch written and directed by Carlo Rim, about a handsome doctor, who seeks shelter during a storm in the home of a peasant. There he is taken with the peasant's tasty cheese as well as with his pretty wife. The ending, in which he chooses between the two, is typically French...