Word: triptych
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...tragi-triptych fortunately leaned on a combination of honest grappling and pure stagecraft, give or take a few lapses. Douglas was by turns crusty and touching as the rebellious old man who refuses to settle down as a withering weed. When a thoroughly resigned oldster (Shirley Booth) gurgles, "You've given me so much," Douglas rasps back, "Anger, I hope." All the same, many aged Americans could well envy Douglas' solution: he merely packs up and goes back to his own house...
...anticritic remarked, they are now saying more and more about less and less. That includes some museum officials who are critics as well. Describing a box by Richard Artschwaser, Ralph T. Coe of Kansas City's Nelson Gallery wrote: "The cheeselike surface of his formica triptych opens to reveal-absolutely nothing. This work reaches clear into the unlimited recesses of the mind: recesses that could frighten." Sam Hunter, critic and director of Manhattan's Jewish Museum, commented on a work by Barnett Newman, maximum leader of the minimalists; it was a large canvas, all red except for four...
When someone asks Norman O. Brown to summarize his theories, he points to a colored print of Hieronymus Bosch's 15th century triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights, which hangs in his office. The first panel is an idyllic study of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The centerpiece shows an orgiastic wrangle of naked men and women. The third panel is a wildly surrealistic version of Hell in which a lizardlike demon sits in judgment, defecating doomed sinners into a hole in the ground...
...grandest coups. In 1957 he had the pleasure of propping up the original in his tapestry-hung office, while King Baudouin was trying to keep the masterpiece in Belgium. What the King did not know was that the horse had long since left the barn; the triptych that the art experts thought was the original was only a dimly lit copy...
Cinerama's Russian Adventure. "Who are the Russians? What is Russia? We couldn't possibly supply answers to these questions, but we're going to have a lot of fun trying," drawls Narrator Bing Crosby, fingering a balalaika. Bing thus introduces this Russian-made travel triptych, a cultural exchange import aquiver with evidence that the Soviets lack Cinerama's skill at matching seams. In Kinopanorama-an equivalent three-screen process-cities, rivers, mountains and ice floes all hump up at the center and slope away precipitously...