Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Small Thing. Even with his new fame, no Eskimo considers his art as serious work. It is just something to do when the weather keeps him from hunting. Even the terminology reflects this attitude. The word for a carving is sinun-guuak (a small thing-you-make); a print is titokuuak (marks you make with your hand). This humility results in the softest sells in all art history. An Eskimo who has journeyed for days to reach Cape Dorset will tell Houston: "I brought a block for a print along. It's no good, of course...
Then tiny (5 ft., 89 lbs.) Handler Clara Alford, 51, went to work on Chik T'Sun (she calls him Gossie for short). A pair of round-eyed Chihuahuas, led by a tweedy woman, minced past on the urine-spattered floor, each bearing on its back a tiny knapsack loaded with a pack of cigarettes, matches and sunglasses. But nothing distracted Handler Alford. Squinting through the smoke of her Winston, she turned the Peke over on his back and began to brush the long hair on his. belly with strokes that soon had him wheezing in relaxed delight...
...moneymaker. All week long newspaper re porters haunted Paar's suburban home in Bronxville, recording every sob and sigh. According to Paar, even NBC President Robert Kintner and NBC Chairman Rob ert Sarnoff had tried to reach him by phone. "They're not bad people as net work executives go," said Paar, but he would not talk to them, hoped to leave on a long vacation. Then he told another story - this time about a poor man who owned only one cup and broke even that one day. As it shattered, he said: "At last I am free...
Ballet at La Scala was for years behind the rest of the world, with choreography and staging sometimes below the level of New York's Radio City Music Hall. But Choreographer Leonide Massine's appealing work demonstrated that La Scala is trying hard to catch up. The ballet opened against a backdrop of black-and-white hotel exteriors reminiscent of Ludwig Bemelmans drawings; the story then moved to nightclub, courtroom and prison as it told of a girl who is wooed by a gangster, framed in a gangland shooting, sentenced to death, but liberated by a previous lover...
...thinks she has been jilted. When her parents are killed in an air raid, she goes to pieces and lets herself be seduced by a no-good draft-dodger who plays the piano. She spends the rest of the picture in Siberia, nursing wounded soldiers and trying to work her spiritual passage home...