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Word: 20th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most 20th-century artists feel the presence of a little black rival in their studios. A round glass eye seems to stare fixedly over their shoulders and to imply, with an occasional clicking wink, that the camera can see and record better than they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Machine Age, Philadelphia Style | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

Sheeler's most recent picture, an oil storage tank surmounted by steel stairs, demonstrated how perfectly his antiseptic style applies to machine-age constructions. The title: It's a Small World (see cut). According to one enthusiast: "If . . . the dynamo has become a 20th-century Virgin, then Sheeler is its Fra Angelico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Machine Age, Philadelphia Style | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...Yank in London (Associated British; 20th Century-Fox) is probably the most pro-American picture ever made outside the U.S. A story of the G.I. Occupation of England (circa 1943-44), it is not merely patient with the Yanks who swarmed over Piccadilly Circus like lusty, thirsty locusts. It is downright cordial toward the good-natured, homesick army of boys who whistled at the girls up & down Regent Street or Shaftesbury Avenue, jammed the pubs to drink up all the spirits in sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...Shock (20th Century-Fox) is a mild word for what happens to a nice, petite young Army wife in this fair-to-middling thriller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

Sentimental Journey (20th Century-Fox), a soft-tremolo, full-quart weeper, should induce more snifflling and blubbering in the dark, more purse-fumbling and furtive eye-dabbing, than anything out of Hollywood since Marguerite Clark went to Heaven as Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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