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...author, attributing the Fall to the decadence described in the article. Although "Deauville" is profuse in anecdote and characterization, it by no means unburdens itself of the faults of the very set it purports to satirize. Clever in a superficial way, often self-consciously affected, it loses its bite by forgeting irony in adulation. The skill of the author is perfectly fitted for conveying the elaborate decadence of the international smart set and largely vitiates the annoying characteristics of the subject...
...would stay put. As any lay contractor worth his cement could have foretold, practically none of these assumptions held good. Plans were suddenly, sometimes erratically, changed. Congress delayed initial appropriations, so that jobs which might have been done last fall had to be done in wintertime. Unions put the bite on workers for stiff initiation fees, held up some camps until demands were...
Artist Dike is not even tempted to bite the hand that feeds him. He thinks Disney's Night on Bald Mountain "the most mature statement" ever made in animated cartoons, believes that Disney's mouse-opera presents a great future for artists-perhaps the missing link between the artist and the public. Says he: "You feel as though you were part of something pretty big and important when you work on a Disney film. One of the greatest things Disney offers an artist is the discipline of having to sell his stuff by making definite and specific statements...
...Salamis (480 B.C.) seems now a great exercise in fustian: there Xerxes, surrounded by his brilliant court, sitting on a throne on a shoulder of Mt. Aegaleus, watched his hopes of world conquest crushed on the crescent of water below, watched the brazen-beaked Athenian triremes dart in and bite the fat bellies of his own oversized craft, 400 little ships crushing twice as many big ones. One of the Athenian seamen that day was a poetic fellow named Aeschylus...
...press preview, when he first saw himself in bronze, the Biscuit tried to take a bite out of Sculptor Wheeler's $25,000 job. But at the unveiling ceremony next day, Seabiscuit behaved with poise befitting a guest of honor. He listened to his encomiums, whinnied with nervous embarrassment while President Leigh Battson of the Los Angeles Turf Club read a poem written by Sportswriter Grantland Rice...