Word: expressionism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Rarely has the discerning palate been assailed by a less pretentious offering: a raw string bean, pickled in vinegar and dill. Yet the Dilly Bean, touted as "the best idea since the peanut and the pretzel," last week had captured the fancy of cocktail-hour nibblers on the East and...
The painter's big job is to find what Koerner calls "an invention"-a pose, a gesture or expression that somehow reveals the essence of the person before him. "I invade privacy," says Koerner, "the most highly secret, sacred privacy." The green hair and the purple patches of flesh...
North to Alaska (20th Century-Fox), a sort of northwestern for intellectuals, resets the Tristram legend as a Klondike comedy. Steady now. The Tristram is John Wayne. Bound home to Nome with a load of mine machinery, Sourdough Wayne picks up a package (Capucine) for his prospector pal (Stewart Granger...
This collection of three related novellas is John O'Hara's best work in years. The stories remind one strongly of the author's early novels, and not only because the suicide of Julian English, the hero of Appointment in Samarra, is an offstage incident in one...
"Cub Scouts" sweatshirts for the boys for 56?. In Accra, attracted by the hawkers' tinkling bells, Ghanaian dandies eagerly sifted stacks of multicolored "Yankee shirts" selling for 28?, judiciously fingered other broni waawu-which literally means the "white man has died." The expression was coined after World War II...