Word: turne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...youth, Henri Matisse was enthralled by Giotto's religious frescoes in the Arena Chapel at Padua. But not until last year, at 78, did Matisse himself turn to religious art; then he began work on the little Dominican chapel that he had planned for the town of Vence, in the hills back of Nice. When he has finished, the result may be a 20th Century rival to Giotto's 14th Century work at Padua...
...over & over, say it in one-syllable words." He rates the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm and the Gettysburg Address as triumphs of simplicity and brevity: each contains fewer than 500 words, mostly of one and two syllables. Last week Adman Barton was getting ready to turn out a new weekly column of personal and social comment for Hearst's King Features. It will be written in no more than 500 words, mostly of one and two syllables...
Ralph Richardson's acting skill creates a highly idealistic, moralistic, and intelligent egoist who seems to be smiling behind every sarcastic remark. Richardson can flick his cane, turn a phrase or look mildly amazed with almost quicksilver brilliance...
...short-circuits the plans of her boy friend (John Lund) and her roommate (Diana Lynn), and in general does everything in the least rational way possible. None of this is very funny and much of it is downright silly. But since almost all of Irma's blunders turn out right in the end, the audience is left with the possibly comforting thought that stupidity is simply the longest way round to happiness...
Song of Surrender (Paramount) describes the adventures of a backwoods Cinderella (Wanda Hendrix) living in turn-of-the-century New England with a stern husband (Claude Rains) old enough to be her father. The pumpkin which gets her away from it all is a primitive talking-machine and a handful of Caruso recordings which she keeps hidden in a hillside cave for solitary recitals. Her prince charming is a rich city slicker (Macdonald Carey) who whisks her off to a nearby metropolis for an innocent, giddy evening of champagne and waltzes...