Word: stiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Byzantine east than of the Gothic north. The lines were angularly primitive, the colors warm turquoise blues, smoldering crimsons, emerald greens, rich topaz yellows. The figures and scenes had an oriental look-a dark-haloed Judas, a grey, long-armed figure of Christ on the Cross, a group of stiff, formalized saints seated at a round table for the Last Supper. Wrote Critic John Russell in the Sunday Times: it "is not the turbulent board meeting of Leonardesque tradition, but a starlit gathering of saintly rustics. [The window's qualities] put it at once in the company...
...there were almost a score of victims in the bandit's marble corral, with all but the mail carrier and two women lying stiff and cold in their shorts. At that point another guest-an astonished man -entered, stared at the scene and cried: "What the hell's going on here?" The horizontal captives behind the desk winced and waited for shots. It took them several minutes to realize that the robbers had long since faded silently away, taking pistols, crowbar and $3,383 in loot, and that they were, beyond any doubt, making a terrible spectacle...
...most part, Boston took in the show silently and thoughtfully, occasionally clucking at the stiff prices (up to $7,500 for Sculptor Robert Laurent's bronze Lot's Wife). As usual, the crowd seemed to like the realism best, voted Java Leopard, a startling, almost photographic jungle scene, their favorite in the show. One advance-guard offering, a section of weathered wood decorated with horseshoe nails and bright paint, drew indignant snorts. "Pay $350 for that piece of wood?" exclaimed a shopgirl. "I wouldn't have it in my house." "You can say that again," agreed...
...Hospital. Rhee's highhanded ways stirred up protests all over. Australia, Britain and France, all of whom have troops fighting in Korea, sent stiff notes. U.S. Ambassador John Muccio, hurrying back from an interrupted U.S. vacation, spent almost two hours telling Rhee in fuller detail what was on Harry Truman's mind. U.N. Secretary General Trygve Lie sent a note pleading for "strict adherence to constitutional and democratic processes." Rhee's followers became a little nervous over a hush-hush "patient" in a U.S. Army hospital, just 400 yards from the Korean Assembly hall. There, under...
With an ailing script and stiff, pseudo-documentary direction, the picture plods along at a pace not much faster than the horse-drawn ambulances...