The Tribune wooed its readers with whimsey & the Times with greater bulk of news.
I open to a favorite movie, Howard Hawks's comedy "Monkey Business"; she calls it "grating" and "boisterous, labored whimsey"; she calls his Western "Rio Bravo" "a semi-satiric pastiche" and "silly, but with zest".
The film was an ironic interlude in Grant's career, coming, as it did, between the cloying whimsey of "Once Upon a Time," in which he was a Broadway sharpie exploiting a boy who had a pet dancing caterpillar, and "Night and Day," the ten-ton Cole Porter musical bio, in which he skittered about as a youthful Yalie before facing life with stoic courage and inscrutable psychic hangups.
Since then the Tribune has dropped the whimsey and become a world newspaper and the Times has turned Republican.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet I open to a favorite movie, Howard Hawks's comedy "Monkey Business"; she calls it "grating" and "boisterous, labored whimsey"; she calls his Western "Rio Bravo" "a semi-satiric pastiche" and "silly, but with zest".
The phase of grasshopper whimsey seems happily to have ended, and the show takes up a more or less definable political position somewhere far out on the antic Left wing of the Liberal Party; in other words, its attitude is one of radical anarchism.
That the play needs changes I do not deny; it is 20 minutes too long, and not even Mr Haigh's bravura could blind me to the painful whimsey of the final reconciliation scene.
There's a story that once in a spirit of whimsey, Capt.
Sabartés, however, in certain letters reprinted in "Portraits et Souvenirs," offers the previously unknown obverse of Picasso's biting public wit — his harmless, capricious, and affectionate good humor and even whimsey, as in a letter he wrote to Sabartés from the Midi in 1936, when his painting was dissatisfying him.
Oscar, the green-furred grouch who inhabits a trash can, where he collects fish heads, mud, an old sneaker, a petrified brownie, and who makes occasional trips, for the sake of his collection, to the dump, is not just a creature of whimsey, with a tendency to rant; he is something of an expert on ecology.
