Word: boredly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost his interest in art. His Batavia house contains one of the finest collections of Indonesian paintings, especially moonlit mountain and jungle scenes. His favorite artist is the younger Abdullah, who painted a hauntingly lovely portrait of Soekarno's present wife (he married her because his first wife bore him no children; by the second he has a young son). When Soekarno was paid 800 guilders a month by the Japs, he used to give Artist Abdullah...
...lost out by committing sins of youth and inexperience: 1) breaking ahead of the signal, 2) going after a decoy instead of a duck, 3) biting the birds too hard. On the water tests, excitable Little Pierre, who was not yet four, hit the water like an outboard motor, bore down on the floating ducks and hustled back. But when the chips were down, Pierre handled badly. So did the Golden. Scoronine led the field until the last day, then refused to plunge into the 45° water. (Shed had won his first U.S. championship on a day that...
...Numbers. In West Caldwell, N.J., Hunter James Smith shot a pheasant that bore the State Fish & Game Society tag number 33536, a little later shot No. 33537, two days later shot...
...challenged the forces of darkness to battle (TIME, Nov. 25), and now he was ready to unlimber his new weapon. This week the first issue of the New Republic under his editorship hit the stands, looking only mildly destructive. The barrel was shinier (a cover in color), but the bore was the same; the ammunition more plentiful (64 pages instead of 32), but generally of the old caliber. One cheering note for the money-losing New Republic: the issue was abnormally ad-packed...
Hollywood's Eyes. "As for the big films, the last thing in the world I would ask of them is that they should all be socially significant. They would be a colossal bore if they were. One can, however, reasonably ask that they should . . . reflect something of the reality of our time. ... I doubt if the individual destiny is quite so important and the public destiny quite so unimportant as Hollywood would make them appear...