Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Fugue was a rhythmic evocation of Conductor Arturo Toscanini in action, and of the music he draws forth. Fredenthal had spent hours in an NBC radio engineer's booth, watching the great man conduct orchestra rehearsals. Toscanini moved too fast to catch in an orthodox sketch, so Fredenthal made multiple-image sketches that recorded a number of recurrent gestures simultaneously. The resulting watercolor bore some relation to Marcel Duchamp's famed Nude Descending a Staircase and some to Gjon Mili's stroboscopic photographs. It had more warmth than either...
Project 109, unlike its predecessor "A Touch of the Times," will not attempt any social message. It will be a straightforward humorous sketch, in the style of the late Robert Benchley, according to Alexander. In the prologue to the film author MacCann will give a dedication and his "limited apologies" to Benchley...
...these ludicrously underplayed dramatics. Miss Leighton's role is the only one with any conviction, and she ably makes the most of it. Wearing his hauteur like a mask and registering most emotions with his eyebrows, Coward almost qualifies for a Broadway revue sketch parodying Noel Coward. In more ways than one, the victim of the piece is Celia Johnson, a fine actress doomed to wear a stiff upper lip through the whole ugly mess...
...money yarns, The Cocktail Party is a woozy piece about a misunderstood writer who finds understanding in his young son; The Pheasant Hunter is a restrained and moving sketch of a boy who is learning to hunt. Saroyan was not exactly underpaid for either of them, but the second is good enough to suggest that if he could ever drop his vast enterprise in egocentricity he might write some first-rate stories...
Many other industries expanded old pension plans or started new ones, adding millions to the cost of doing business in 1949. The changes did not settle the problem; they did sketch its enormous size. At year's end there were still about 11.5 million unionists without pensions, and union labor hoped to straighten this out in 1950. Part of the cost of pensions was a burden that industry could, and should, bear-if labor's demands were reasonable. But many businessmen also argued for a liberalization of the Federal Government's social-security payments, lest the burden...