Word: towers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confidence with which Cooke has worked out this canvas and the triptych Tower of Babel, which is undoubtedly the show's tour de force, contrasts markedly with a certain indecisive quality which harms some of his earlier pictures. This weakness is most evident in an apparent overworking of certain parts of some other portraits--especially in the region of the eyes. The result is an effect of dull lifelessness, which, although effective in the Portrait of Helene Swindells, is generally disturbing...
...speed with which Cooke's style is developing has already climinated these and other flaws in the later paintings. From the earliest work in the show, Dry Mountain, Jamaica, (1951) to the Benkert portrait and Tower of Babel, he has come a long way in both technique and color. Almost sloppy, ineffective brushwork and a frightened approach to a Fauve palette in the former are resolved into a powerfully executed composition in the rich, dark colors, which Cooke now favors, in the latter...
...runway at the Ontario (Calif.) International Airport. Few heads turned as it took off at exactly noon one day last week -it was being flown on a routine production test, as a preliminary to being delivered to the Air Force. But two minutes later the airport tower man strained to watch it; the voice of the Scorpion's pilot had just spoken eight chilling words from a loudspeaker at the field: "Get out the fire equipment. I'm coming back...
...reckoned without the Trib's aging (73) Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, who huffily frowned on the idea as undignified for the "World's Greatest Newspaper." The circulation men gently persisted, suggested that the dolls were really quite handsome, and urged the Colonel to descend from his tower office and take a look at samples. Grudgingly, the Colonel agreed; however, he made a slight mistake...
...from spoiling the entire film, the mediocre effects offer a forceful contrast to the great moments in this "Hunchback." Laughton is magnificent at the Feast of Fools and in the pathetic tower sequence with Esmeralda. The crowd scenes are uniformly impressive, and the film in all is more than entertaining...