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...runner. He and other mountaineers who had successfully penetrated the 8,000-m barrier proved to have what Oelz calls a "rather active respiratory center," meaning that as the air gets thinner, their rate of breathing involuntarily increases. "He's obviously got a superb high-altitude physique," says Chris Bonington, who in 1975 led a successful British expedition to Mount Everest, "but what has given him the edge over everyone is creative innovation. There is a wall called 'impossible' that the great mass of people in any field face. Then one person who's got a kind of extra imaginative...
...three principals are surrounded throughout most of the evening by a trio of consulting doctors. One of them, Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington, ranks among Shaw's most acid-edged portraits. As amusingly acted by James Spiegler, Sir Ralph is a bombastic loudmouth full of saws about the powers of science and blissfully unaware of his tragic incompetence. The second member of the group, portrayed by Peter Hugens, is a butcher of a surgeon who believes that all illnesses may be cured by an operation which he has originated. Hugens shows considerable technical ability in the part. The third...
...peaceful Seine also drew foreigners. The self-mutilated genius Vincent Van Gogh, a Dutchman, painted the Seine's golden Bridge at Asniéres. From the U.S. came Painter Frank Boggs, from England (in 1817) the short-lived Bonington, who painted the exhibition's orange-tinted view of Mantes...
Producer Cornell has gathered a cast of veterans who act like it-Raymond Massey (Sir Colenso), Bramwell Fletcher (the painter), Clarence Derwent, Whitford Kane, Ralph Forbes, Colin Keith-Johnston. Cecil Humphreys is sidesplitting as the pompous Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington, who explains that he finds it necessary to live in the style to which his rich patients are accustomed...
Lawrence was a master, despite his faults, and Wilkie was at all events competent, as were Bonington, Elty, and Crome or Cotman, to name a few others. One must remember that competence is almost a pejorative term in criticism, if connotes the damnation of faint praise. Turner was once one of the gods of Fry's idolatry, so his remarks here, though just to this reviewer, may seem to some idol-demolition. Fry recovers, however, from any suggestion of mere pique, with his laudation of Constable: "Constable, like Gainsborough, belongs to the great European tradition of design." We are thus...