Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primitive art, as represented in the Rousseau-like motifs of Summertime or the expressive decoration of Incutus, are apparent, as well as the influence of early European religious art and the grace and poetry of Shahn's figures. In color too, there is a significant development towards a brighter, more sensitive palette. The transparent application of colors over opaque tones gives his work more luminosity...
...Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling, was a unique illuminated color process worked out by LIFE Magazine. Color transparencies of the masterworks were blown up on strips of 40-in.-wide film to the exact dimensions of the originals, and framed by light boxes containing fluorescent tubes. The brighter-than-life effect was like listening to symphonic music on a hi-fi recording. It was an exciting, highlit visual experience...
...brighter side, an awareness seems to be growing that Uruguay's economic troubles are mainly homemade. Citizens complain about the ineffectuality of the nine-man governing council, sign petitions for a return to the presidential system. Disappointment at the red-ink record of the government in business is widespread. Says Juan Antonio Acuna, head of Uruguay's No. 1 non-Communist labor federation: "We are terrified when the state considers nationalizing another industry...
...with a meteorological shift to fair weather. A hard rain stopped, blue sky reappeared, and the sun peeked out over Portland. For hard-running Oregon Republicans, like their brothers in Minnesota, Washington. California and Colorado, the pulse-quickening presence of Dwight Eisenhower made the political sun shine-a little brighter...
...Pittsburgh last week, in a determined attempt to rescue Jim Duff, came Gettysburg Farmer Dwight Eisenhower, whose own popularity remains high in Pennsylvania. After Ike's blue-ribbon endorsement (the warmest of the campaign to date), things looked somewhat brighter for Jim Duff, who has never yet lost an election. Republican headquarters in Harrisburg and Pittsburgh reported a surge of financial contributions and volunteer workers. State Chairman Bloom heaved an audible sigh of relief about the improved state prospects. But some of the Grundy boys were still following after their oldtime leader (1904-21), Boies Penrose, who believed firmly...