Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lahr and Miss Gray can smile a trifle sadly at Two on the Aisle. Its skits are the show's main virtue, and even some of them should work shorter hours. But Sketch Writers Comden & Green (On the Town) have really satiric minds, and at their best are very funny. Elliott Reid is funny, too, in a take-off of the Kefauver committee hearings. The music is all too thin, however; the dances are dullish, the production numbers mostly colorless. But thanks to its stars, a rather negligible revue still manages to be a very pleasant evening...
...must rise in wrathful indignation against a [sentence] in your thumbnail sketch of V.M.I. [TIME, May 28] . . . The day does not begin officially with breakfast at 7 a.m. but with a grim reveille formation in an earlier darkness . . . Waiting until the last split second to make reveille, "old" cadets jam through the arches and leap out of first floor windows...
...townspeople of Assy sided with the bishop. They had come to accept their church's Rouault windows, Lurçat tapestry, Léger mosaic and Matisse sketch, but never the Richier crucifix. "It was evil," a woodcutter ventured. A young girl agreed: "The figure was thin and frightening. The colors of the other art in the church make me feel alive and strong, but this thing only scared me like a dark devil...
Along with simple explanations, Truman prescribes simple drawings. A swollen, inflamed appendix is easy to sketch on a prescription pad, and so is the operation of cutting it off. "Perhaps," says Truman (no Vesalius), "the less artistic you are the better you can illustrate for the patient...
Wild Punch. His Balcony Escher describes as "a sort of self-mockery. I chose a town built on a hill so that in the sketch there emerged a powerful plastic suggestion by the perspective view of the blocks of houses. [Then I punched] the back of the paper. Now you can see the protruding tumor, and you see that these houses and sun were nonsense. But I, poor fool, what did I do? This wild effort to depict in appearance the reality seems also to have been illusion, for . . . the paper is as flat and smooth as before...