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...York Times Radio Editor Jack Gould described the life of the television set owner: "He opens his home to the world . . . The video hostess soon finds that her cocktail shaker ... is no better than a thimble . . . The family's evening is not tainted with such an archaic pursuit as ... conversation. A mute tranquillity has overtaken the American home." ¶Two Congressmen introduced a bill proposing 1) that the U.S. build a $2,500,000 house for its Vice President, and 2) pending construction of the new mansion, house him in dignified old Blair House, now used to accommodate foreign...
...smile, a bullfighter, a skeletal fish, were repeated often in his designs. There were also ten deep jugs and thin-necked jars designed as a sort of hollow painted sculpture. One of the liveliest was half-pot and half-owl. Picasso's pottery owed a great deal to archaic Mediterranean sculpture and ceramics, which represented beasts and gods in a similar bulging shorthand, but it also had a 20th Century wit and a deliberate lack of refinement that marked...
Comptroller Kohler was a natural for the assignment. A 55-year-old Michigan-born accountant (from Tom Dewey's home town of Owosso), he first stubbed his toe on Government brass as a World War I quartermaster officer. His persistent attempt to overhaul the archaic accounting methods of the sprawling Chicago quartermaster's office caused a ruckus that brought him to the verge of a court-martial. But the quartermaster general took one look at Kohler's suggestions, ordered them adopted on the spot...
Elegance of Line. The play-within-a-play is handled with high elegance and tension, in sinister dumb show, accompanied by the snarling archaic charm of the music William Walton composed for the occasion. The camera, always holding the mimes at distant center, steals in a lordly semicircle past the enormous heads of the guilty, the guileless, and the pitilessly watchful; and rising whispers, like leaves in a storm-foreboding wind, underline the shock and horror of this deadly piece of court satire. From there on, the film arches in unbroken grandeur and intensity...
...Cole went to the British Museum and somehow procured some ancient ecclesiastical vestments. Dressed in these robes, and taking the title of the Anglican Bishop of Madras, Cole appeared at one of the better known English public schools, and confirmed several of the schoolboys in the chapel. Why his archaic vestments did not give him away at the time, I cannot imagine, but perhaps as Bishop of faraway Madras, the age and condition of his robes did not matter...