Word: toboggan
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...will paint Coney Island or Central Park-any place full of people. But his favorite subject has always been the nuns and monks of Venice. He paints them riding motorcycles, hurtling down a hill on a toboggan, carrying chickens under their arms, or lazily fishing in a canal (see cut). His colors run to the rich pinks and purples of Venetian palazzi, but his artistic credo is disarmingly simple: "I think art should be personal...
...hulkiness, Sterling Hayden as Ethan, the Yankee farmer, all but invented a cubist style of acting. Caught in a nightmare marriage with a termagant hypochondriac (Clarice Blackburn), he falls in love with her winsome young cousin (Julie Harris). In the end, the lovers decide on suicide-downhill on a toboggan, crashing into a thick-trunked elm. Viewers who had not read Ethan Frome then got one of the most abrupt shocks ever delivered by television: Julie Harris, seen years later as a survivor of the wreck, her voice shrill, her disintegrated mind making her more shrewish than the wife ever...