Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very bass. James Lardner, as the young love interest, has little poise and less animation, but he delivers a strong lyric. Leland Moss plays the part of the funny old lecher Senex as if he were not supposed to be old, lecherous, or funny. As Senex's wife, Gladys Smith has the right looks and voice, but she is a weak comedienne...
...David Smith's persistent interest in the illusion of two dimensionality in sculpture unifies his total production. Smith's sculpture never encourages the viewer to move around it or see it as an object with volume. His sculpture is designed, like painting and drawing, to be viewed from only one position. In one of his earliest works, Saw Head (1933), the over-all visual context is two dimensional, with the mouth and eye as obvious examples of the use of three dimensional form to suggest flat surface and line. Even the more three dimensional features, such as the nose, suggest...
...Smith had begun to explore the Analytical Cubists' idea of analyzing a three dimensional object into various views and recomposing it in an illusionary two dimensional picture plane. The Analytical Cubists reveal several views of the subject in juxtaposition, intending to provide a more complete, immediate knowledge of the object. To represent a cup, the Cubist painter might juxtapose a view of one side with a full view of the bottom, in the same picture plane...
Night Riders. How to explain the craze? One old hand, Major G. N. Loraine-Smith of the Pytchley Hunt, says that it "has something to do with the mechanical age creating a longing to get back to something near the earth." He adds: "We even have factory workers hiring ponies and riding out without sleep after working a night shift." But one vocal segment of the British population objects to this form of outdoor recreation...
...MAINE GOVERNOR 69% of the vote Curtis (D) 84,679 Reed (R) 68,000 U.S. SENATOR 71% of the vote Smith (R)* 90,000 Violette (D) 69,000 U.S. House (2): +1 Democrat...