Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life of his subjects. Onetime Big Time Dancer Adele Astaire, who had never seen the original, last week viewed a color reproduction of her Kokoschka portrait (see color page) for the first time since it was painted in 1926, let out a cry of anguish, posed for a photographic version, finally calmed down enough to remark, "Well, it's better to be remembered as hideous and funny than not to be noticed at all." See ART, Psychological Portraitist...
...sure laugh-getter, the sack dress. "The source of the sack is Moscow. It will be Khrushchev's greatest triumph. It spreads discontent, unrest, antagonism and hostility. It isn't even subliminal-its nonlinear." Speaker Stevenson suggested that women use the chemise in a dressed-up version of the gimmick from Aristophanes' Lysistrata, in which Greek women go on a sex strike until husbands give up warring: "Let women say-peace, or the sack...
...Cheerful Sad-Sack Schweik first turned up back in the 1920s in Czech Novelist Jaroslav Hasek's antimilitary satire, The Good Soldier Schweik. Last week he popped up on the stage of Manhattan's City Center in the premiere of the late Robert Kurka's operatic version and won a warm welcome from audiences in the New York City Opera's spring season of contemporary American works...
...audiophiles with a yen for hearing a realistic pingpong ball, seems ready to make itself heard in the mass record market. Last week Columbia Records removed the only obstacle to industry agreement on standards for new stereo records by announcing that it had set aside its own, different, version of a sound-in-the-round disk...
Mlle. Boulanger's technique as a conductor is not to lead, so much as to elicit the music from the players and singers, participating with them in chamber music fashion. She conducted standing at the piano, occasionally supplying her own version of a continuo part. This resulted frequently in uncertainty, and some awkward moments. But for the most part, she had the complete sympathy of the musicians, whose grasp of her rhythms and nuances amounted almost to mystical communion...