Word: daydream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Apologists for abstract painting like to warn against reading too much into such pictures. They are supposed to be seen "purely as paintings." This is like asking people not to daydream at concerts. Whether it be "pure" or merely obscure, whether "pioneering" or just playing, abstract-expressionism is something to dream and wonder over...
...might be guessed, British Author Pamela Frankau, 50, belongs to the Eliza-crossing-the-ice school of fiction: the narrative floe consists in keeping the characters' daydream life one jump ahead of baying reality. She succeeds; artifice mimics art, animation apes life, but the entertainment, most of the time, is real...
...found myself daydreaming about whether I would rather have been an American or an English writer," writes English Author C.P. (for Charles Percy) Snow in the New Statesman, and uses his daydream to compare the literary climate of the two nations. Trained as a physicist, now a civil service commissioner, Sir Charles is not only one of England's best novelists (The Conscience of the Rich), but a topnotch literary critic to boot. He can feel just as comfortable enmeshed in American letters as in those of his own country, and is often invited by U.S. universities...
...walks out to the swimming pool behind the house and seems surprised to discover that his nine-year-old daughter Randy is off swimming at the country club. "I never played with other kids. Most of the time Randy would rather sit and daydream like...
...once everybody notices an amazing change in the bum's behavior. He gives up drinking, rises betimes, bustles about on mysterious errands. The quartier is delighted. The tavernkeeper's pretty daughter (Dany Carrel) invites the reconstructed wreck to a dance, and he begins to daydream about romance, riches, monograms on his shirts. And what is responsible for the change? A small thing, says Director Clair. The good-for-nothing has discovered that he is good for something-if only to hide a criminal from the police. As he happily explains to his reluctant accomplice (Georges Brassens): "At last...