Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just a line to express my appreciation of the beautifully written review of my book, Tale of a Whistling Shrimp [Nov. 4]. Alas, my home-town paper, commentating on the book, says, "It's hard to laugh at the Reds." Goodness-are we going Sputnik-silly? Most certainly we should laugh at this evil dictatorship. Laughter is one of democracy's strongest weapons...
...century impressionism to strict realism of the sort practiced by his son. His "easel pictures"-landscapes and figure pieces done for pleasure between illustrating assignments-were his worst. As some men can dance well only to brilliant music, Wyeth painted at his best only when inspired by a timeless tale...
...have nothing in common with the works of the great French illustrator Gustave Dore, or with the Englishmen Cruikshank and Tenniel, except genius. In the U.S., no other illustrator ever achieved such a poignant mingling of psychological truth and natural mystery. Perhaps even more than Washington Irving's tale the pictures tell the weird swiftness of human life...
...story has its pathos; but as the picture tells it, the tale is all too often merely pathetic. The fault lies chiefly with Director Federico Fellini. the brilliant creator of I Vitelloni, who has revived the bathetic excesses of La Strada without its noble brutalities. As for Fellini's wife, Actress Masina, she gives, almost gesture for Chaplinish gesture, the performance that made her famous as the idiot girl in La Strada. It's a case of the right part in the wrong picture...
This modern-day morality tale of three men down and out in Mexico searching for gold in the remotest hinterlands might be classified as picaresque and episodic, because it depends on external events and travel through the desert to give unity to the human drama which is at the center. Director John Huston creates a marvelously realistic atmosphere. His Mexican lore is superb, every minor detail of dress and speech and technique rings true without the costumed grandiosity that Hollywood usually purveys as local color. He does not give us pale demigods or villains with waxed black mustaches; the three...