Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black felt head with the zipper eyes, the stuffed parrot on the hollow log that appeared at the Modern Museum are typical dadaist artifacts, incorrigibly senseless but regarded by their owners as good examples of a movement that still has vivid memories...
WILLIAM HOGARTH-Marjorie Bowen -Appleton-Century ($5). This able biography of the great satirist paints a vivid picture of the London background of Hogarth's work, tells the careers of the subjects of his portraits, describes his fight for the first copyright law (1735), explains how it happened that the pug-nosed little Cockney genius was so detested by academic critics that his achievements went unrecognized until a century after his death...
Dignity, truthfulness, and care make the Korda-Laughton "Rembrandt" an outstandingly fine movie, one as strong and vivid as the central character. Stooping to neither thrill nor pathos the picture sweeps majestically over seventeenth century Holland, silhouetting the rugged simplicity of the painter by contrasts with petty people about him. Historical accuracy and first-rate camera work show that Hollywood on the Thames is learning the American tricks...
...well as his diaries and notes, her collected correspondence, published last week in an imposing volume of 561 pages, threw a clear light on one of the strangest characters in U. S. political and literary life. The strongest impression they communicate is that Adams had stupidly patronized a vital, vivid, unexpected character who wrote almost as well as he did and who had a spontaneous liveliness that matched his dry wit. Marian, familiarly known as "Clover," rattled on in her letters to her father, with all the garrulousness Adams ascribed to her, but with a humor for which Adams...
...properties are barely suggestive of the objects they represent, and a vivid imagination is demanded of the audience. There is not the remotest effort to secure realism, and actors knock at invisible garden gates, and gallop about gayly on horses that are at best ethereal. The strangest part of the mechanics, however, is the behavior of the property men. They are always very much in evidence. Slouching all over the stage, they evince only occasionally a condescending interest in the anties of the performers. In general, they withdraw their attention from their newspapers only to sling a cushion...