Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide variety of shapes and textures demonstrated that modern potters have learned from modern art to create a host of effects the ancients never tried. Yet most of the wilder efforts, especially in sculpture, are wildly unsuccessful. Best are the potters, who respected pottery's traditional forms, but contributed here a new handling of glazes, there a new rough energy of texture...
...draws on the ancient Greek use of the chorus and of masks. It draws on the medieval morality play. And it would have been impossible without Wilder's Our Town and, more especially, The Skin of Our Teeth. This will please Wilder, who said not long ago, "I should be very happy if, in the future, some author should feel... indebted to any work of mine. Literature has always more resembled a torch race than a furious dispute among heirs...
...play's cosmic atmosphere by suspending in the air a sort of armillary sphere fitted with small spotlights, which Tharon Musser has exploited ingeniously in her extraordinary lighting. The set, furthermore, has to be able to undergo drastic physical upheaval in mid-scene, in the tradition of Wilder's Skin of Our Teeth...
Back in Manhattan after finishing her first film role in two years (as a hip-rolling cutie in Director Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot), distraught Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe rested in seclusion from a bitter blow: only 16½ months after doctors had removed an embryo by surgery to save her life (TIME. Aug. 12, 1957). a miscarriage had, after some three months, ended her latest try for motherhood...
...banned cussing crewmen, played love scenes with Leading Man Tony Curtis as if enclosed in a cake of ice. It was tough on Curtis, a simpler type who can still exclaim: "Gee, Marilyn Monroe makin' love to me!" Marilyn also huffily rebuffed Producer-Director Billy Wilder's smallest advice ("You'll make me forget how I'm going to do this scene"). A mild man, Wilder survived by treating Monroe like a fine Swiss watch: "Only it doesn't start ticking when you just wind. You have to shake it a little-not just...