Word: strictness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
They came to buy a brand of expressionism which seemed far to the right of Evergood's politics. His strict sense of how to draw usually made a solid scaffold for his rags and flags of dramatic, loosely brushed color to fly from. When he was bad, Evergood was horrid. Some of his most obviously propagandistic work (American Tragedy, Jobs Not Dimes') looked careless-on-purpose-like that of a politician who mispronounces words for effect. But thought-out paintings such as Juju as a Wave (a portrait of his wife-see cut) had a warmth of feeling...
...herself accredited as a foreign correspondent, stocked up on baby clothes, practiced pinning a diaper or two on some small relatives, and set sail. In Holland she had her first international labor pains. The adoption laws were much too strict. She went on to Rouen. There she found a baby she wanted, but there were drawbacks. Little Patrick was colored, and anyway his father, a G.I. from Brooklyn, wanted...
...shot, big-splurge World's Fairs; with the notable exception of Chicago's 1933-34 Century of Progress, which finished its second year in the black, they have all lost money for their bondholders. Chief interest now is in permanent or annual fairs which would pay strict attention to business-no Midways, no fan dancers, no Trylons and Perispheres...
Every evening before he goes to sleep (on the floor; he never sleeps in a bed), Abdullah plays chess, to which he is passionately addicted. He is a strict Moslem, who criticizes Egypt's King Farouk for having allowed his Queen to go out unveiled. But he himself keeps a "black harem," a frequent source of dispute between him and his three wives...
...George Balanchine. Prima Ballerina Alexandra Danilova, once his wife. Of 24 ballets in the Ballet Russe's Manhattan repertory this season, eight were Balanchine's. The best, Concerto Barocco, consisted of a few hippy girls in black swim suits, against a plain blackdrop, contorting their bodies in strict but living counterpoint to Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D Minor. It had none of the splendiferous sets and costumes, the "story" told in pantomime, or the applause-bidding entrechats of a star dancer which attract the matinee mobs; yet it brought down the house. Balanchine...