Word: surrealistes
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...shrewd director who strongly resembles George Abbott. Jack Jordan attains the rube's satisfaction of seeing the city slickers lined up all around the block trying to get ducats for his play. Show biz is about as comprehensible to him as a Variety headline, and creates a surrealist zone in which Jack can never find his way, especially after the daily ration of martinis. To make matters worse, his wife and four children bulk awfully large just about the time Jack has begun trailing after lovely Star Irene Lovelle like a morose coon hound...
...Black Swan said that in her set, boys and girls always stripped for tea. Jayne Mansfield dropped her shoulder straps to show photographers considerable acreage of a "head-to-toe" poison-ivy rash. And a New York censor ruled that an art-movie producer would have to banish his surrealist Muse or put some clothes...
...tell this somber-hued tale, Composer Poulenc abandoned surrealist shiftiness and the brassy pyrotechnics which once made him the rage of the Left Bank. The new work proved to be in the 19th century operatic tradition-full of flowing melody, dramatic action, swift scenic shifts from the quiet cloistered walls to the reverberating streets of revolutionary Paris. The opera's most touching scene occurs in Act I, when the Carmelite Mother Superior (movingly sung by Gianna Pederzini) reveals on her deathbed to the sorrowing nuns her fear that God has abandoned her. Aided by La Scala's magnificent...
Holed up in a centuries-old farmhouse outside Barcelona, Spanish Surrealist Painter-Sculptor Joan Miró and Potter Josep Llorens-Artigas three years ago embarked on one of the strangest pottery-sculpture adventures since the ancient Zapotecs cooled their kilns. As Artigas described the process to the French art review L'Oeil, "Miró had collected objects over the years . . . an empty sardine can flattened by a truck, odd pieces of cork, rubber, glass, rocks . . . These chance encounters became sculptural elements to be translated into pottery." Artigas and his 18-year-old son would shape these elements in clay...
Poulenc: Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani (Richard Ellsasser; Hamburg Philharmonia conducted by Arthur Winograd; M-G-M). A highly colored work that finds Composer Poulenc at his most charming. It is tuneful, with moments of surrealist shiftiness, brooding melancholy, sheer pyrotechnics. The disk has excessive surface noise...