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Blackmun has a dry, self-deprecating wit, but he rarely shows it in public. Even as a boy in St. Paul, he put his school studies ahead of most other interests, and spent much of his spare time helping out in his father's grocery and hardware store. Studious but not shy, he won high school oratorical contests and was active in church plays. At Harvard, he majored in mathematics: "It is much the same as legal thinking-it teaches you to be precise and logical." To meet his expenses, he also worked as a milkman, janitor, driver...
...paint the body because it has great possibilities for interpretation," Wunderlich says. That much he shares with the German expressionists. But his dry wit and typically surrealist delight in visual and verbal puns provide ample comic relief. He titled a portrait of a woman with five breasts Very Décolleté. As for interpretations of his paintings, he leaves that to others. "I refuse to try to explain everything, because if you know too much about yourself, you become impotent. Better not to know what it is that makes you tick...
...earning, friend and foe alike learned to fear his prickly wit and often combative manner. In 1956, when his novel Ten North Frederick won a National Book Award, some critics attacked O'Hara for overemphasizing sex. Now, 14 years later, what once seemed daring seems decidedly tame...
...Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Society's interpretation of Mikado is thoroughly inspired. The musicians, the singers, the staging, all capture the essence of Gilbert's wit and Sullivan's score as few local productions ever have. The producers have pooled some of the finest talents on the Harvard campus-members of the Band and the HRO as well as seasoned G and S personnel...
...beauty and energy of the novel flow between the lines, around the characters. Ken Russel's direction provides wit and a pictorial opulence that belie the film's lean budget. But Women in Love oscillates too frequently from the shrill to the booming, from woman to man, from instinct to rationale, without once adapting a coherent point of view. In time, the narcissistic opus becomes like its author, who ultimately lived down to Katherine Anne Porter's summation. He gives, she said, "the nightmarish impression of the bisexual snail squeezed into its narrow house making love...