Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris they met Matisse and the other Fauves, the "Wild Beasts" who revolted against impressionism. When they returned to Munich in 1908, they settled in an apartment in suburban Schwabing, which became the headquarters of the Munich Fauves. Paul Klee lived two houses away, and near by were Alfred Kubin, Franz Marc, Alexei Jawlensky, August Macke. In painting excursions through southern Bavaria, Kandinsky and Gabriele discovered the village of Murnau, where they bought a house, called to this day the Russenhaus, with a fine view of the Alpine foothills. Kandinsky held court there too. "Every day is like a festival...
...whimsical comedy about a family who had a self-acknowledged genius for a baby sitter, the film pokes pleasant fun at suburban life and mores. Sitting Pretty's main virtue is the superlative acting of Clifton Webb, who at times is wildly hilarious in a deadpan style as a mysterious and omniscient figure who takes a job as children's companion and domestic aide in order to get background for a lampooning novel about suburbia. He has several classic moments--among them a wonderfully droll bit when he chastises an infant for throwing cereal by emptying the bowl...
Jaded Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, 62, creaked into Manhattan from his suburban sanctuary to attend the wedding of his most recent (ninth) exwife, sometime Burlesqueen Anita Roddy-Eden, 34, and India-born Cinemactor John (Tonight We Raid Calais) Sutton. Making a grand entrance at the scene of the civil ceremony, a hotel library, Anita gazed fondly at her discarded mate and his successor, cooed: "Darlings, I want you both!" Quipped the groom: "Have you got an extra wedding ring, Tommy? I forgot mine." Later, Playboy Manville recalled the nuptials with elation: "It was the happiest day of my life-a wedding...
...subjects range from such imaginary portraits as King Gustave of Sweden Tatting to East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry Disembarking from H.M.S. Cressy , the fourth in a series of watercolors which sprang from the war games that Parker, a lead-soldier enthusiast, played until recently on the mudflat at suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y. Parker's drenched watercolors. done on rolls of plain shelf paper, now appear in the collections of both the Whitney and the Museum of Modern...
From the first spin of the reel, it is plain that the heroine (Judy Holliday) is full of life. As she flap-foots into her average suburban kitchen, her face zombie-like in the spell of some unspeakable urge, it will be obvious to the last row, third balcony, that the lady is pregnant. But what is this dark drive that possesses her? With somnambulistic stare she crosses to the kitchen counter. She reaches for a knife-and then for the bread and peanut butter. She raises the sandwich to her mouth, hesitates. A gleam of madness flickers...