Word: bit
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...artist of quite a different sort. A birdlike little (5 ft. 2 in.) man with a realistic style and an irrepressible sense of humor, Louis Bosa, 55, has always been fascinated by "the silly human things people do. I play detective all the time." Last week a bit of Bosa's amiable detective work won him first prize ($1,000) at the 25th annual show at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio...
...same problem of style hampering translation is found in Lowell Swortzell's direction. It is conceivable that by a careful introduction of side-splittingly funny bits Mr. Copley's script might have been saved (though I doubt it). Instead Mr. Swortzell has contented himself with moving his actors awkwardly around the stage. When he does choose to introduce a bit he invariably works on the principle that if something is funny once it will be at least twice as funny the second time...
...From start to finish, the two days of internecine battle produced a level of competition every bit as intense and gripping as the Olympics themselves. The brutally simple conditions of the meet guaranteed drama: the first three men in each event made the team; the rest did not. It made no difference if the losers were national champions, previous Olympic gold-medal winners or world record holders. Key survivors of Palo Alto's long trial by fire...
...especially intriguing item, though, was Richard Boyce's "Fall of Icarus," made of steel, polymer, and ivory. And the Festival's over-all Grand Prize went to Marianna Pineda's "Prelude," a life-size representational bronze of a supine woman about to go into labor; the presence of a bit of covering drapery left the viewer with the impression that the sculptress (and perhaps the subject) wanted to eat her cake and have...
...Siegfried and Brunnehilde in Wagner's Ring. In the log-toting scene, it is a lovely touch to have Ferdinand caress a log in his arms as he ruminates over his beloved, and then have Miranda embrace the same log out of bashfulness during their ensuing duologue. (Another inspired bit comes at the end when Prospero gives Ariel his much-desired freedom: here the fingertips of the two almost touch, like those of Michelangelo's God and Adam...