Word: amidst
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Otto Muller's Standing Nude in Landscape cannot be called cacophonous, but the element of good painting it in fact possesses only makes its faults doubly inexcusable. The figure, standing amidst branches, two of which are her arms, possesses all the spiritual truth of a chic cosmetics ad. Like the surrounding stuff by Schmidt-Rotluff, Rohlfs, Pechstein, et al, there is a point here, a point there, a little theory everywhere, but not so very much cohesive painting when all is said and done...
...Vermont-born Marine lieutenant stationed in Haiti during the early '30s. He smokes little and drinks less; the tropics wear but do not beat him. On Stateside leave, he meets a Smith girl named Isabel Bogardus, and highbred, high-strung Isabel shocks Owen by bedding down with him amidst the ancestral stones of an old cemetery. They return to Haiti man and wife...
...headline makers of the U.S. air world are supersonic fighters, jet bombers and transports. But today, almost unnoticed amidst the sonic booms, a second segment of the industry is enjoying a rise of unparalleled proportions: the private-plane industry, which is riding the jet stream of its own $1 billion boom...
...Paris the leaders will meet amidst a noise of bickering, of suspicion that others are not doing their full share. But the dominant note will be simple and wholesome fear-fear of the enormous, suddenly dramatized power of Soviet Russia, which the Sputniks blazoned across the world's skies. Last week there was growing concern that the U.S., to whom they had looked for comfort and new leadership to meet the Sputniks' challenge, was failing their hopes. Doubts deepened when, with a thunderous rumble, the Vanguard rocket burned on its launching pad at Cape Canaveral and tossed...
...light farce, but such is its success that one never notices. The irrepressible Fernandel plays a harrassed husband who feels that his real calling is women's fashions. One of his extra-curricular conquests leaves him the controlling interest in a fashion house that is on the skids, and amidst great swish and swirl our hero conquers the world of fashion. And with the usual amorous byplay, all comes out well...