Word: formed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...going to present a play entitled "Waiting for Lefty". Someone had told you--for it's not likely that you read any contemporary drama but your own--that it was a leftist play. You sallied forth to go through your usual paces. This time, though, you looked off form. No one laughed. No one pledged you his vote for next election. An exasperated audience, after a pathetic prologue which might have been called "Waiting for Mickey," concluded you were even more foolish than they'd expected, and settled down to the real events of the evening. You didn't manage...
Last night Pi Eta presented the preview of its seventieth annual show in the form of "Say The Word," a musical comedy. The plot centers about, the efforts of a public relations counsel to gain publicity for a wealthy young lady who returns to America after three years abroad. The theme concerns itself with the ubiquitous love triangle: the heiress in love with the publicity man, and the publicity man in love with his secretary...
...costuming is deserving of mention. The lavish gowns of the "feminine" leads remind one of Schiaparelli's best. It is surprising how mere draping can lend a seductive enchantment to a mere male form. The show, as a whole, is an embryonic Rodgers and Hart production...
...colors he uses are combined and applied. What da Vinci, by using a real woman's face, expresses in his "Mona Lisa," Klee would express by varying the hues, intensities, and values of certain color combinations. Thus, it is easy to see how the transition from a literal form of expression to an abstract one might involve a brief process of receptive adjustment on the part of the spectator...
...This is a much less important question than the number of times that it has been asked might indicate. But it must be dealt with. First of all, what is any artist trying to say? Is the content of any good painting so entirely divorced from the form in which it is expressed that it can be separated from the form and set up as the idea or intention in the mind of the artist? I think not. But for the purpose of discussion, we must divorce the content from the painting itself. Now it is difficult, almost impossible...