Word: whistler
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...woman wearing a scarf over tightly rolled hair curlers, and toreador tights over troubled thighs, gave off a brassy laugh as she came across the nose art on a bomber called Whistler's Mother. It depicted a cigar-smoking tart with a mug of beer in one hand, a bomb in the other. "Now that takes me back," she said. "I used to know everything about these things, but that was three husbands ago. You couldn't ask me anything now." After the crowd had had a chance to inspect the craft up close, the show cranked...
...1870s to the outbreak of World War I, a journey that manages to bridge 19th century formalism and Bauhaus severity. Although Tiffany's lamps and Gaudi's facades are archetypal examples of art nouveau, the author widens artistic horizons, and readers' eyes, by demonstrating that fine artists from Whistler to Picasso were influenced by its rhythmic, serpentine style...
...Whistler's (1104 Chapel St.), a restaurant and bar with a moderately sophisticated clientelle, serves expensive food, but people go there for nachos and drinks. Yale sources say Whistler's rarely card, but don't be surprised if they...
...often humorously, when he sniffed out dishonest intentions or botched executions. He acknowledges one novelist's gradations of ineptitude: "She began several years ago with writing unmitigated nonsense, and she now writes nonsense very sensibly mitigated." He praises with faint damns a pamphlet composed by the painter James McNeill Whistler, who "writes in an offhand, colloquial style, much besprinkled with French--a style which might be called familiar if one often encountered anything like it." Holding at arm's length a novel by Louisa May Alcott (Eight Cousins: or, the Aunt-Hill), he mentions the opinion of some foreigners that...
However, most of the credit must go to Benton who wrote and directed this somewhat autobiographical tale with customary finesse. Scenes that might have been heavy handed under another's direction are saved from melodrama by Benton's understated humor. When Moses, a born whistler in the dark, looks at the farm devestated by the storm with shutters and doors and broken glass lying everywhere, he says brightly. "Everything's little bent, but it's still here...