Word: twisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...process that fascinated audiences is called Natural Vision, a new twist on the old stereoscope and on MGM's 1937 two-reel "depthies." Two projectors throw separate images on the screen. The light of each image is polarized, i.e., filtered so that it "vibrates" in only one plane, at a right angle to the other image. Wearing glasses fitted with polarizing lenses (furnished by the theater management), the viewer sees a different picture with each eye; his brain combines the images into a three-dimensional picture...
...scriptwriters have taken a lot of Runyon characters and wrapped them up according to ordinary musical formula. This is, however, one slight twist: instead of two men chasing a girl, there are two girls after a fidgety bookie, called Brain Foster (Scott Brady). Virtue, of course, triumphs in the end and Mitzi Gaynot as a showgirl managers to win the doublin reward of marrying Foster, but not without several chases in which the ubiquitous bloodhounds play a conspicuous part...
...Past. "And after calumniating the greatest masterpieces, they dare couple their obscure names with those of our supreme masters . . . What would sculptors say if a mason undertook to cut away some marble from the Venus de Milo to give her a wasp waist, or if one tried to twist Apollo's nose in order to give him more character?" The first thing to do was to remove the overstuffed romantic upholstery from the original music. The second was to rediscover the true harpsichord in place of the "little gavotte players, toys for wealthy amateurs" constructed at the turn...
...first effects of the new Kremlin twist-back to Popular Fronts-was felt in Greece last week. There, with a national election only a week off, the Communists were switching to middle-of-the-road political parties. The orders came via "bandit radio" from Rumania, with the voice of exiled Communist leader Nicholas Zachariades telling Greeks to vote for Premier Nicholas Plastiras' National Progressive Union of the Center in the Nov. 16 general election. While naming Plastiras "a traitor ... an enemy of the people and an agent of American-ocracy," Zachariades said Communist voters must aim at "getting...
Kimonos with Zippers. Noguchi thinks he is getting closer to what Japan can appreciate in modern art. "Through Shirley," he says, "I can understand emotionally what Japanese dislike." Aside from pure sculpture, he takes familiar objects and gives them an up-to-date twist. Instead of bulky old-style kimonos, Shirley wears formfitting, Noguchi-designed robes with Zipper fasteners. He asked himself why Japanese lanterns should always be made in the same century-old shapes; Noguchi's paper lanterns are modeled into crescents, cubes and other shapes. Says Noguchi: "Tradition is all well and fine, but it must...