Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drag ball that opens Act II. Lavishly costumed for a kind of inverts' Mardi Gras, the imperial army's top officers cavort in the home of the Baron von Epp. Dennis King plays the role in tiara and gown, and flutters an imperious fan with the regal disdain of a queen of players. At no other point does the play rise to this level of theatricality. Salome Jens adorns the evening physically as a Russian Mata Hari, but she delivers her lines like a fishwife. As for Maximilian Schell, he is frostily remote. Director Peter Glenville doubtless tried...
...father, a master stonemason, to value the particular heft and quality of pure materials. One of his first jobs consisted of designing stucco ornaments for a local architect-"full-size details of Louis XIV in the morning, Renaissance in the afternoon." The experience left him with a lasting disdain for the falseness of decoration and a lasting relish for the honesty of materials. His buildings sprang from them, not from any abstract notion of forms...
...trials of courtship have always been natural subjects for film makers. Berri watches them without mockery or disdain. The result is a rare observation of the pathos and humor engendered by the rites...
...Disdain Ties...
Although black artists disdain any ties to previous American literature "the black arts are a thoroughly American phenomenon," Davis said. "The belief that art can remake America is part of the Romantic disposition which characterizes this country," he added...