Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first prize for painting (a $100 defense bond and a painting kit) went to Private Paul Calle, 23, a onetime commercial artist from Manhattan, for his somber study of a little girl in a tenement doorway. Private Calle painted it "because I was confused when I first went into the service," and the painting, drawn from memories of a Lower East Side childhood, "expressed my feeling of confusion...
Zurbaran was best at such stone-cold, stone-solid figure pieces as the Monk. A somber ascetic, the 17th Century Spaniard never strayed from his native land or from his passionately simple, sculptural style. Like Velasquez, he was a realist who painted only from models, but while Velasquez was concerned chiefly with color, Zurbaran cared only for form...
...American in Paris" is a highly imaginative film. The camera wanders selectively through an illusory Paris, from the noisy streets of the Left Bank to the somber steps by the banks of the Seine. It captures the spirit of a Parisian fairyland, making it a fit background for the dream sequences which form the best part of the film. These sequences are a necessary mechanism in a film which must make use of the varied talents of Gene Kelly, George's Guitar, and Oscar Levant, and still keep the plot from being too contrived. At one point Levant dozes...
...incurable cancer of the throat. He told his wife that he had one great desire: to meet Tiritilli face to face and hear more about Pfc. Truman Fain. Last week Fain got his wish. At the Fain family's request, the Navy Department took Sergeant Tiritilli-a husky, somber soldier of 30-away from his duties at Norfolk, flew him to Independence. Fain was dying by the time the sergeant arrived at his bedside. But when his wife whispered the visitor's name, Fain opened his eyes, smiled, squeezed the sergeant's hand...
Makings of a Saint. The plot is routine -a middle-aged doctor and his young son each fall in love with the same kept woman-but Mauriac fashions a somber and moving story of frustrated love. The father, Dr. Courregès, has had a drab life, and he idealizes Maria Cross, the mistress of a wine merchant, imagines her as wronged by the whole world. Son Raymond does no idealizing; in his grubby way he just wants to go to bed with...