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Bringing its exhibit up to the 20th Century, the Sociedad also showed a modern Indian dance mask fashioned of straw, bits of mirror ?nd shiny human teeth (see cut). But in the main, there was not much effort to place works in their exact historical niches. Even the archeologists avoid references to epochs: they merely speak of four vague "cultural horizons...
Mount's forte was pictorial storytelling. One of the best examples in the Met's show is The Breakdown, a jovial boys-in-the-back-room scene, which provoked an arch rebuke from the New York Mirror, a weekly, of June 13, 1835: "We might be disposed to wish that such superior talents and skill as are here displayed had been exercised on a subject of a higher grade in the social scale. . . ." Another characteristic Mount is Bargaining for a Horse, showing two farmers, standing near a sleek saddle horse tethered to a barnyard fence, and busily engaged...
...goings on in Thurber's deceptively casual cartoons range, from the neurasthenic to the pathological. But, like a psychic distorting mirror, they reflect reality-well-locked in the subconscious though it may be. Little boys bite little girls; men hear seals barking in the middle of the night; shapeless women spring into rooms crying, "I come from haunts of coot and hern." Doctors abandon restraint ("You're not my patient, you're my meat, Mrs. Quist...
...broadcast was promptly reported in the U.S. press. Manhattan's tabloid Daily Mirror headlined it: MONTY GETS THE GLORY, YANKS GET THE BRUSHOFF...
Most Manhattan papers brushed off last week's awarding of the American Horse Shows Association's annual medal to Lois Lisanti as horsewoman of the year. But caustic Dan Parker, Daily Mirror sport columnist, whose pet targets are boxers, wrestlers and race-trackers, found it worth 1,200 words. Wrote Columnist Parker...