Word: somberness
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...mood was somber and the talk was tough. Barred from their dressing rooms, actors milled aimlessly around outside their theaters signing autographs. A sound truck sent out by the producers' League of New York Theaters drew up in a darkened street to proclaim "We hope this Equity strike ends soon." The actors, who call it a lockout, shouted back, "Lie! Lie!" Perched on the stoop of the Playhouse, Anne Bancroft announced: "We're the actors-the smiling ones. The worried-looking ones over there are the producers." Said Raymond Massey: "I'm sick of people saying...
Foreign Devils' Lens. The sun rose on the Shaw Brothers in Shanghai in 1923, when Run Run and Run Me, down to their last penny, held a somber parley with their two other brothers, Run Ji and Run Di. At issue: whether or not to sell their last remaining family possession, a dilapidated theater. They decided to sell their house instead and live in the theater, managed to put together a cumbersome stage melodrama called Man from Shensi, which inexplicably became a hit. One reason: the first night, the hero leaped into the air, fell through rotten floor boards...
Included were the work of 19 Italians and five Frenchmen, all on their very best behavior. Rodin is represented by a terra cotta study of his Thinker, Rouault by a somber Autumn. About the liveliest item in the show is a couple of playful cats done by Sculptor Pericle Fazzini. As usual, Giorgio de Chirico was unhappy about the choice of his work-an uninspired Still Life with Fruit and Milan Cathedral Seen from Rooftops. Said he: "Of course all my works are good, but these are of lesser importance...
...like celebration of The Private World of Pablo Picasso. From a snowscape of Red Square-that symbolic replica of the Russian steppes in the heart of Moscow-to the two-headed imperial eagle screaming on a cloth of gold, The Kremlin is a tone poem of somber and dazzling opulence...
...blight of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in 1955 sent Lleras back into Colombian politics. He plotted his revolution in Bogota's somber Jockey Club, where he brought the warring Liberals and Conservatives into a united front that eased Rojas out of office without a fight. Now midway through his four-year term, he has put across a belt-tightening stability program, cutting the foreign debt from $400 million to $170 million, holding the peso steady...