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...artist's problem, as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner saw it, was "how to arrest in a few bold strokes a movement, catching the passing moment." To him, in 1900, the paintings in museums were "anemic, bloodless, lifeless studio daubs," while on the streets of Dresden, "life-noisy, colorful, pulsating," cried to be painted. Kirchner was not alone in his ambition, but of all the German expressionists who sprang up before World War I, few are enjoying quite such a vogue as Kirchner today...
Still in pajamas, the ex-President was whisked to a downtown fort for 24 hours' safekeeping before flying off to Costa Rica, where his wife Coralia has relatives. In a bloodless power shift, El Salvador's middle and upper classes had acted to remedy a situation that had the makings of a bloody, Castro-style revolution...
...been 146 years since Swedish troops last went into battle in the nearly bloodless 1814 war with Norway. A derisive jingle commemorates their prowess: "Ten thousand Swedes marched through the weeds, to kill one poor Norwegian...
...Manhattan's Upper West Side last week two gangs met in a bloodless rumble. As shooting began on the $5,000,000 film version of West Side Story, the principal street fighters were Hollywood dancers with heavy makeup and bleached hair; but a more genuine group stood by with scornful interest. Wearing checked trousers and colored shirts which, by their own description, gave them a "continental Ivy League" look, far more authentic than the dated T-shirts and Levi's of the dancers, the onlookers could claim to be competent critics. On hand as extras, they were members...
Second Roundup. In the first hours after the almost bloodless overthrow of former Premier Adnan Menderes, the task of putting the Turkish Republic back on the democratic track seemed as straightforward as taking a hilltop. The army was solidly behind Gursel and his "National Union Committee" of generals, colonels and junior officers; the people had welcomed them with joy; their enemies were in their hands. Moderation was the order of the day. Leaders of Menderes' Democratic Party were released almost as fast as they were arrested; at the start of the week only 150 were in custody. General Gursel...