Word: thurberism
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...those wary of stark severity, fear not--the exhibit includes a quintet of colored prints. Though they hold little geometric innovation; Shellburne Shellburne Thurber's trio of photographs seems Bohemian next to the sophisticated simplicity of Morell's and Casebere's works, by virtue of color alone. Thurber depicts three rooms from his deceased Aunt Anna's house which are in interior decorator's nightmare. More aesthetically pleasing than these purple-and-yellow bookshelves and orange curtains are the strong diagonals delineated by Stephane Couturier's gargantuan Paris construction photos, which flank the entrance to the gallery...
...were sort of oblivious to the real risks he took," says son Peter S. Gill '78, who was unfazed upon noticing that his sixth-grade anthology of short stories contained works by James Thurber, Ogden Nash and Richard Gill. "We always thought this was typical...
...Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn --My Early Life: 1874-1904 by Winston Churchill --My Life & the Principles for Success by Ross Perot --My Life in High Heels by Loni Anderson --My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber --History of My Life, Volumes I-XII, by Giacomo Casanova...
...need courage if we're going to create something wonderful. The New Yorker nearly died in 1925, the year it was born. Indeed, it did die for one day, before its patron reconsidered. The magazine at the time had a paltry circulation of 2,700--perhaps, as James Thurber once pointed out, because it started out so sophomoric and error prone. I'm not saying Stim could ever have grown into the New Yorker. Or maybe I am. The point is, we will probably never know...
Soon, Buchwald set himself up as the laughing dragoman to American celebrities. The foster home boy became Our Man in Paris. He took Elvis Presley to the Lido. He asked James Thurber what it was like to be blind. Thurber replied, "It's better now. For a long while, images of Herbert Hoover were the only thing that kept popping up in front of me." He got to know Orson Welles, Audrey Hepburn, Lena Horne, Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Somerset Maugham, Danny Kaye, Humphrey Bogart. At Buchwald's wedding to Ann McGarry in 1952, Gene Kelly danced with the bride...