Word: armchair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a lifetime of producing pictures meant to relax the looker-"like a comfortable armchair"-old Modern Henri Matisse is at work finishing his designs for a Dominican chapel in the Provençal village of Vence. Not too far away, at Assy in the French Alps, Père Couturier has made the art of Moderns Fernand Léger, Jean Lurçat and Georges Rouault shine clean and fresh in the new mountain church (TIME, June...
...life from an armchair, declared Playwright Thornton (The Skin of Our Teeth) Wilder, at Harvard for a few lectures. "I want to be exposed to the full shock-and-countershock of life. I don't want to be spared or saved from anyone or anything...
...answer was that the Joint Chiefs had taken a second look at Alaska and this time had seen it through airmen's eyes. To fireside strategists, equipped with an armchair and a globe, the Aleutians might look like neat steppingstones from Asia up to the North American continent's front door, islands to be defended one by one. But the steppingstones had to be seen. The globe, for instance, did not show the masses of empty tundra stretching inland from the western coast like sloshy, moldy pudding. No map could hint the subzero temperatures that could cripple...
...been part of the artist's intention. By smudging out instead of neatly erasing his first hesitant strokes, he gave the picture a hot-off-the-easel look that it would otherwise have lacked. By sticking to foggy greys and muffling the girl's personality in the armchair's embrace, he reduced the drawing to what interested him: an arabesque of harmoniously looping and weaving lines...
...only place where he is likely to unbend is in the privacy of the commanding general's red brick house, across from the green Offutt parade ground. There, in the evenings, he sits in a comfortable armchair pulling at his ever-present pipe. His gregarious, twinkly eyed wife Helen, whom he met 19 years ago at a dance, is not afraid to chatter, or to stray as far from the point as she chooses. SAC's officers have unconcealed admiration for LeMay's eleven-year-old daughter Jane, who frequently tells...