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...look he has given the Danes is his flashy new production of Bartok's nightmarish The Miraculous Mandarin, which has been running in Copenhagen for the past few weeks. A series of taut opening scenes, ominously underscored by Bartok's crashing, nervous music, sets the sordid story: a leering, undulating streetwalker lures her men to a shadowy room where a trio of gangsters beat and rob them. The last victim is a hideously ugly, stooped Chinese mandarin, danced by Flindt himself. After a grotesquely forceful solo, he engages the streetwalker-provocatively danced by Vivi Gelker-in a scorching...
FORTUNE and Harper's Bazaar. By 1950, he returned to more venturesome art in an attempt to portray the surface glitter of U.S. society. Nowadays he captures it, often by amplifying its most sordid outcroppings. But he also suggests that life is full of fantastic fury and that picturing it is more attractive than many would expect...
Died. Charles Burchfield, 73, homespun, Ohio-born artist, who shunned publicity, never traveled abroad, cared little for critics, convention or popular trends in art, nonetheless won fame and financial success in the 1920s for his watercolors of grey and sordid industrial scenes, after which he changed his style completely, indulged his sense of fantasy by musing about heaven ("Like Corot, I hope there will be painting there") and doing fairy-tale landscapes haunted by macabre creatures; of heart disease; in Gardenville...
...with the conflict between the American idea of individualism and the Irish idea of the solid family. The occasion for the conflict is the chaotic world of Massachusetts politics in the late 1950's and early 60's. In the 30's and 40's, Massachusetts politics were squalid, sordid, and petty--primarily used as path for personal advancement, much like politics in any other state. But Catholicism with its doctrine of the resourceful steward ("to whom much is given, much is expected") and Puritanism with its sense of mission (John Winthrop's words when founding Boston, "We shall...
Kafkaesque Fate. Ruby's murder trial, like his life, was a sordid circus. His principal attorney, flashy Melvin Belli, tried to convince the jury that Ruby was insane. But Belli's florid oratory and arrogant yelpings at the all-too-obvious ineptitude of Judge Joe B. Brown were not enough. The verdict was guilty; the sentence, death in the electric chair. The conviction was appealed by some of the 18 lawyers that Ruby had in the three years following his crime, and last October the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals overthrew the finding on the grounds that Judge...