Word: viewer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DEPILATORIES. "A number of shots of women's legs after successful application of a depilatory seemed more an attempt to arouse the sensual attentions of the television viewer than a demonstration of the efficacy of the product...
...brooding presence, seemed inhabited by a nameless spirit in a way that a savage artist would recognize. The swelling curves of a woman also suggested the surge of a hillside, the texture of water-shaped stones. The figures swallowed the light here, emitted it there, and a viewer walked away feeling that he had seen stone or wood or bronze touched with life...
BOLD VENTURE-"The program's potential for harm may be lessened by the bad acting, the bad writing and absurd story line that deaden somewhat the impact on the viewer...
...sensation at last year's Carnegie International. In that, as in most of his canvases, Cohen combined deliberately clumsy, pictographic painting with collage, pasting in a round mirror and a hank of Eve's hair. Mirrors, he explains, "are the supreme illusion; they mock both the viewer and the painting." Cohen teaches at Northwestern University, talks well about other men's art but bogs down when it comes to his own nightmarish visions. "I begin with something only half formed," he says, waving his hands. "I believe that in painting, you just have to step...
...Filmed with three different cameras simultaneously, the images are separated on the wide screen by blurry stripes from top to bottom. The sound track is unpleasantly thunderous, and the Soviet scriptwriters have produced a painful brand of Americanese, delivered through stereophonic loudspeakers located south by southeast of the viewer's ear. Horrible example: "Gee. I'd like to fly on a TU-1O4," says the lady narrator. Reply from the Russian guide (south by southwest): "I think it's just as nice to walk in the country you call home...