Word: hudson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seen That!" With Thomas Cole's founding of the "Hudson River School." the emphasis in U.S. art shifted from people to nature. Cole's Arcadian views, seemingly observed through a dusty brass telescope, opened the way for a score of great artists who wedded themselves to the infinitely various U.S. landscape. Then, in the supposedly materialistic era following the Civil War, three titans loomed on the horizon of U.S. art, as they still do today: Ryder, Homer and Eakins. Ryder saw life as something of a dream, Homer as a struggle, and Eakins as a solemn commitment. Each...
...smiles on the dead and useless bodies (suffocating names, proficiences, and adjectives--states symbolized) revered because they are dead and useless and can't kick. The poet treats these bodies to expressions--Cockadoodle doo!--and then hands them to the strangler who near the end is caught reading The Hudson Review. I overflow on Kenneth Koch because he is alive and seems to exemplify in some ways what the editors have gotten around to saying. He is also clear...
Giant. In a big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's bestseller about Texas, Director George Stevens digs the rowels of social satire into the soft underbelly of U.S. materialism; with Rock Hudson. Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...
...Billy the Kid Hummel hurled the lacquer thinner and match? No one seemed to care; it was enough that Hudson was dead. He had created so much hatred that Prisoner Ralph Bowman feared for his own life at the hands of other convicts because he had used a fire extinguisher in trying to save Jim Hudson...
Giant. In a big (3 hr. 18 min.), tough picture based on Edna Ferber's best-seller about Texas, Director George Stevens digs the rowels of social satire into the soft underbelly of U.S. materialism; with Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean (TIME...