Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next 30 years, Kiddy was a warm friend and admirer of Pussy and Lovey, and his book explains his friendship and admiration. It doesn't explain (no one has, convincingly) why Stein-worshipers such as Thornton Wilder regard her as one of the most brilliant conversationalists of our time. It contains sections of literary approval of Author Stein's writings, but its main aim, which it fulfills very well, is to show why so many people, from Picasso to the average G.I., found Pussy and Lovey such a fascinating and lovable pair...
Fifth Dimension. The more people came, the wilder John Brown talked. He declaimed like a prophet, his dark eyes glowing. "For five years," he told a newsman, "I've been living in the fifth dimension. The master cell has 38 crystals. This develops in an evolutionary process, and the crystals increase. After a while, we'll all be made up of crystals, and we'll all be living in the fifth dimension. We'll all be living in space, and there will be no such thing as time. It'll be a beautiful world...
Director Mitchell Wilder had put on his first "new accessions" show two years ago. "Some of the museums may have had the feeling that we wanted to exhibit their pictures and give them the haha. We had no such thought in mind and were very circumspect...
...which displays Marlene Dietrich, Jean Arthur and John Lund against the ruins of Berlin, is obviously intended as a light satirical comedy about victors & vanquished. Unlikely as it sounds, that could be done; done well, it could be salutary as well as entertaining. But Messrs. Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder are a little too clever and a lot too inhumane to bring it off much of the time...
...course of time one or two choices out of ten prove worthy, I believe the general selection is justified." That line is no help when they come to the museum's most important pictures, such as the great Guernica mural that shows Picasso in a wilder and more difficult mood than his recent one. Faced with that deliberately and violently ugly protest against a German bombing raid (in the Spanish Civil War), visitors fairly bristle with questions...