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Pictures were cropped to closeups of chinless, earless faces. The Trib s prizewinning front page was now a blotch, with capsule news summaries and headlines that always seemed to end with a question mark. (One staffer swears he received a wire saying, WE HAVE THE FOLLOWING HEADLINE. WRITE STORY FOR USE WITH IT.) A lot of money was spent on promotion: "A good newspaper doesn't have to be dull." And circulation rose a bit. Then the 1962-63 printers' strike smashed the effort. Another economy drive had already got Denson (he missed too many deadlines), and after...
William James Hall is "a white blotch on the skyline" and Larsen Hall a "fortress turned away from the world." according to an article in the Boston Sunday Herald Magazine...
...Hawaii's outer-island hotels [July 23] will easily draw the intelligent tourist away from the cellblock gun-turret piles that corrupt Waikiki and blotch the lovely profiles of Diamond Head and Punchbowl. A few of our developers care for Honolulu, once one of the world's beautiful cities; the rest are feverishly changing it into the architectural junkyard of the Pacific...
...shape is usually differentiated from the surface of the canvas by the line enclosing the shape. A black line or a black blotch on a white surface creates the illusion of "relief," just as surely as a seated figure seems separate from the picture plane. The painters of the exhibit tend to reject relief and explicit bounding lines in favor of a more homogeneous surface area. Paint is exploited for its own abstract properties. The colored surfaces imply nothing but colored surfaces, demanding the viewer's interest solely in the value of their interrelationship...
...delights of sweet anticipation," growled Cannon. "But now we are gnawing on the cold corncob of stern reality." For example, only a year ago Kennedy submitted a 1963 budget indicating a surplus of $500 million; that wishful bit of black ink has since changed into a massive blotch of red, currently estimated at $8.8 billion. With that in mind, Virginia Democrat Harry F. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, predicted that the actual deficit under the President's 1964 budget would run to $14 billion...