Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Critic Jewell was far beyond the swooning stage. "A few of us," he warned, "incline to rate the new Picassos as little better than disastrous. . . . Picasso, in his recent oil work, may be said to paint vigorously-which isn't being really very explicit, I know. In my opinion his sense of color has grown steadily worse. . . . There remains the matter of distortion, and in that department he moves with the utmost freedom...
...same stone-showed Picasso's method of starting realistically, then distilling and distorting his subjects into something horrendous (or sometimes absurdly simple). The first print of Picasso's Bull, at the Museum, looked solid and sensible enough to illustrate a children's picture book. The sixth stage of the same lithograph was an airy arrangement of less than a dozen thin lines which looked as innocent as a Cro-Magnon cave painting -but less knowing. Another series of nine lithographs, entitled Two Figures, began as a rather sweet and sentimental pair of nudes. In the end they...
...contemporaries of U. M. Pulbam and others as the "Brats," were held here. And sporadically, throughout many a winter, its grimly rearward rooms were taken over by obstreperous young amateur thespians who would onliven otherwise dull performances by jiggling scenery and communicating in loud whispers with the actors on stage...
...within the United Nations rather than in tri-lateral conferences. This is a commendable position, for the people of the world have placed their hopes for peace in the United Nations; but for the next few years the U.N. will be playing Goldilocks in a small corner of the stage while the three bears gambol madly in front of the footlights. If the jealous stars should allow their misunderstandings to lead to open violence, their fury would destroy the stage, theater, and all, and little Goldilocks would never have a chance to strut her stuff...
Married. Van Johnson, 31, chubby, pink-haired cinema Dream Boy of U.S. bobby-soxers, and Eve Abbott Wynn, 30, onetime stage actress; he for the first time, she for the second; four hours after she divorced Comedian Keenan Wynn, Johnson's best friend; in Juarez, Mexico...