Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...storybook simplicity, a picture-book vividness. It has the folk imagination's ability to recreate in its own image, to animate with its own sufferings, to interpret with its own morality. Now & then, with a homely detail, it contrives an awesome effect; or with an incongruous touch reveals an unexpected meaning. Everything is most unmystically concrete: Heaven is a Southern fish fry, Babylon is a honkytonk...
...trial to be out of touch as far as I am . . ." Sherrill works full time at the Manhattan headquarters of the Episcopal Church...
...could cut a man open with a deft touch, lay his vital organs on his chest and put them all back inside again . . . He straightened noses painlessly with a pine broomstick and a hammer. In all things that counted in medicine, he was up to date...
Billy Joyner's story "At Four O'clock to Remember" is the third good piece in the issue--within its limits, in fact, a better job than the more ambitious plays. It concerns a feebleminded 25-year-old farm girl who is seduced. Joyner shows a fine touch in portraying the girl's dulled, slowed-down feelings, and manages, too, to catch the quite desperation of the parents weighed down by the burden and shame of such a daughter. It is an excellent story, simple and yet not shallow...
...touch of the Times," admittedly an "experimental film," is a silent Chaplin-type full length "fantasy" about a kite-flying fad among a group of tin workers. The same double standard applies here, too. The script drags in places, and the unusual musical score starts to grate after a half hour of it. This, if you expect a full-fledged Charlie Chaplin job. But the many clever scenes redeem the whole job if you judge "A Touch of the Times" for what it is--the surprisingly competent first effort of a new undergraduate group...