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...responsible for this sort of eat-your-cheesecake-and-kid-it-too is Gagster Don Hartman, who put some of the trickiest comic curves into the Road to Singapore, Zanzibar and Morocco. The whole picture is easy, handsome, unabashed. It was a fantastic idea to festoon a completely unreal version of World War II around Comedian Danny Kaye. The result: one of the few pictures which seem to have been made for a huge audience of soldiers overseas, avid for such funny fare. (By month's end they will be seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Agriculture: Carlos Montenegro, 40, pockmarked, dour, good hater and trickiest politico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Good Neighbor Trouble | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...Trickiest stunt Wolff used was to split a full-faced picture down the middle, reverse one half and match it with the same half by montage, so that the picture was composed of two right sides or two left. The right side, he found, tends to be dominant, gives the face its most characteristic expression (the mouth usually is most expressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Open Book | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...clarify and dramatize all this artistic tomahawkery, the exhibition's directors, René d'Harnoncourt, Frederic Douglas and Henry Klumb, had carpentered one of the trickiest jobs of installation in the museum's history. Towering South Alaskan Kwakiutl idols leered from dimly-lit corners; ceremonial masks hung like primitive waxworks in their showcases, their hollow eyes lit at shadowy angles by concealed spotlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lo the Adaptable Indian | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

Prokofieff: Program of Piano Music (Played by the composer; Victor: 8 sides). A sheaf of miniatures by the trickiest of today's composers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: November Records: November Records | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

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