Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Though called a children's show, Mr. I. Magination (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS-TV) appeals equally to adults. But it leaves teen-agers cold. "They're tough," says Paul Tripp, 35, who plays Mr. I. and supplies much of the show's creative magic. "We just can't get the ones between...
Enwonwu's ancestors carved for magic purposes, not for exhibition. They gave force to their whittled gods by using many of the tricks of modern art: violent distortion of figures into angular cubistic shapes, mingling of naturalistic features with wholly abstract ones, the surrealist shock-value of giving vaguely human figures some of the attributes of animals and birds. The results struck at least one art historian, Roger Fry, as "great sculpture-greater, I believe, than any we have made...
...synchronization and humorous comment. The film's piece de resistance: the frogs and crickets croaking and chirping through a chorus of the sextet from Lucia. Well worth sitting through a dull feature for, Beaver Valley is both an informative nature study and a delightful example of moviemaking magic...
...trial was a failure; Vonnegut's commercial silver iodide was too impure. He tried again with a few specks of pure silver iodide, which he evaporated from an electrically heated wire. At once the captive cloud in his cold chamber turned into snow. The merest smidge of the magic iodide seemed to be enough...
Visitors this summer even smoked Mozart cigarettes, munched Mozart pumpernickel. There were performances in the Festspielhaus and the open-air Rocky Riding School, not quite up to snuff, of Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute. But last week the first postwar performance of the late Richard Strauss's last opera edged Mozart momentarily out of the spotlight...