Word: slanted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry V and Hamlet, played with flawless, zestful art by London's Old Vic Company, are giving ST. Louis a new slant on Shakespeare...
...aren't slant-eyed and flat-chested," said one young unemployed actress last week, "you haven't a prayer of getting a job." Cause of her complaint: Broadway is going heavily Oriental this season. The World of Suzie Wong (see THEATER) is only the first of a Far East catalogue that includes such forthcoming items as Flower Drum Song, Rashomon, Kataki, Cry for Happy and the umpteenth revival of The Shanghai Gesture. Even the small, off-Broadway houses are braced for the Oriental invasion, with three versions of classic Japanese No drama...
Thurs., Oct. 9 Behind Closed Doors (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, U.S.N. (ret.), deputy chief of Naval Intelligence during World War II, masterminds this reasonably authentic slant on American counterespionage...
...distinguishing mark of such leading Pacific Northwest painters as Mark Tobey, Morris Graves and Kenneth Callahan is their ability to mix Zen with zest, give an Oriental slant to their Western vision. Now a major new artistic talent, who arrived at the East-West meeting point by a different route, has appeared among them. The newcomer: patient and painfully modest Paul Horiuchi, 52, a Japanese-born American who for years made his living as a railroad foreman...
...facts did not support such racist conclusions, and despite pressure from Southern editors, the wire services refused to give that slant to their reports on Northern school delinquency. Many Southern editors nonetheless echoed the Montgomery Advertiser's taunt that the real story was being suppressed by ''such deluded racists as the New York Times.'''' A widely distributed series of cartoons in the Nashville Banner derided "Mixiecrats" and "Bleeding Hearts," pictured the North's "objective liberal press" as burying delinquency stories on the obituary pages. When newsmen such as the Atlanta Journal...