Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a long time. When they first came, there had been that embarrassing scene at the Emerald Beach Club when Nassau high society had formally welcomed the Duke and snubbed his Duchess. The colonials had to be more British than the British...
...crawl to a slow march. On the 19th day of the battle for Iwo, a 28-man patrol from Company A of the 21st Regiment (part of Major General Graves B. Erskine's 3rd Division) broke through to the northeast coast and slid down the cliffs to the beach. To General Schmidt, they sent back a canteen of sea water, marked "for approval-not for consumption." To the aid stations they carried back their wounded, caught in Jap mortar fire on the beach. Next day, the 4th made a second breakthrough, cutting the Japs into three pockets...
Cause of the furore: Look had run a postage-stamp-size view of a Miami Beach stripteaser in the advanced throes of her art. Look's motives were studiously patriotic: to illustrate "slaphappy, flush America on a deluxe joyride" and Miami Beach's "war-dodging, business-as-usual complacency...
Collectors, studying this week's small show with restrained excitement, found that Julian Levi's most effective subject is still the fringe of the sea and the desolation of marine marshlands. "Outstanding was Red Dory (see cut), a haunting strip of beach featuring the crazy profiles of salt-soaked wood forms, two laboring human, figures, three gasping, landlocked boats...
Painter Levi alternates his sketching on the beach with work in a Manhattan studio that is cluttered knee-deep with marine subject matter: old oars, cork floats, shells, broken pilings, sandpiper decoys, fishnets and other briny flotsam & jetsam. His new show at the Downtown Gallery-ten sea-dominated landscapes and four portraits-is probably a fairly proportioned cross section of the artist's enthusiasms. Says he: "As a secondary interest, I cherish the human physiognomy...