Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eventually, when every garage contains its second car, the sores in the earth will heal, and the kiosk in the Square will be razed to make way for an electronic traffic cop with magnetic adenoids. For the present, however, the subway czars have added a touch of irony to their extortion by offering five tokens for ninety cents...
...perhaps the best definition yet of "primitive painting"-at least as it applies to the Garbisch , collection. Underlying the whole show, Walker suggests, "is a method of delineation that is realistic but not naturalistic. It is an objective statement of fact to which lack of technical accomplishment adds a touch of fantasy. It is an idea of a person, a place, or an object, around which the artist, so to speak, puts a line. But such representation is rarely achieved without a certain stress and strain. Part of the charm of these pictures lies in the tension between a recalcitrant...
Preparation, in the course of which the Wellsman sets up his office and gets in touch with "potential leaders" (Wells lingo for men of means). Explains one Wells executive: "Potential leaders are men who frequently have been so busy with their own affairs that they have drifted away from the church . . . Subconsciously, they have the conviction that they haven't been doing enough work for the Lord and would like to know how they can gracefully become active. We provide them with the grace and the means...
...garden in Winchester is a source of pride almost equal to his literary accomplishments. Each year, nearly ten thousand visitors stop to admire the azaleas which he plants and tends alone. This season, as in the past, he predicts a bad year for the flowers, his last touch with the rural Russia of his youth. Almost unfailingly, however, the plants have survived oppressive frosts, and like their gardener, continue to grow...
...Jobson are a rich English couple who have fled to Africa to escape the British income tax. They add a rich touch of irony to The Fire-Raisers because of their conviction that they have migrated from a slave state to a free democracy. The only flaw the Jobsons can see in Africa is the alarming number of "black faces" that are visible in it. "I think it would be a very good thing if they were all sent elsewhere," says Mrs. Jobson vaguely...