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...died young (in 1918, along with Moser, Wagner and Klimt), has been the subject of more passionate popularity than Kokoschka over the years: his images were the more earnestly pained and ugly. As Varnadoe writes, Viennese arts had lost their capacity for compromise between "the giddy and the sullen...
...Libyans, who make a point of observing the niceties of the relationship between host and guest, were understandably cool to the U.S. correspondents. "Their mood was sullen and angry," notes TIME's Fischer, "but their hostility did not seem directed at us." After Gaddafi's brief TV appearance Wednesday night, demonstrators began chanting "Down, Down, U.S.A.!" in front of the hotel, while others, in a more festive mood, organized a horn-tooting, flag-waving victory procession along the city's + corniche. Libyan radio reports that U.S. pilots had been lynched by furious mobs did not engender affection for Americans...
...wise mother knows that only children do not necessarily get along with other only children. Sociopaths have trouble socializing. Could they play together? Would they interact? What statues would adorn the hotel lobby? Who would laugh at whose jokes? Who would be primus inter pares among these sullen husks...
Despite the sullen tone of the three plays, they must, upon reflection, be seen as optimistic. Beckett shows that even in a world that is nihilistic, man cannot bring himself to be a true nihilist. In Rough I, the cripple asks the beggar why he doesn't just do himself in. The beggar replies, "I'm unhappy, but I'm not unhappy enough...
...find its way into a U.S. movie house. For months the film had been held hostage in the continuing guerrilla war between movie artists and the industry that bankrolls their dreams. In Hollywood, such skirmishes are usually waged behind paneled doors and result in compromises, ulcers and the final sullen handshake. But Director Terry Gilliam is no gentleman warrior. Finding his picture in distribution limbo after Universal Pictures refused to release his film (which he had shot according to the approved script and delivered on budget), Gilliam went public with a full-page plea in Daily Variety to the president...