Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chang thus demanded vengeance in the form of war and by inference the restitution of his inheritance. Any not-too-well cured dope addict might have had this scarcely brilliant idea, but what about Reform No. 1 ? Who put pro-Red ideas into the noodle of the Kidnapper? Old Chang, when he held Peiping (TIME, June 27, 1927 et seq.) indulged his habit of doing something so fantastic that today only Adolf Hitler does it: he caused the heads of Communists to be actually chopped off and "roll in the sand." Old Chang's executioner with his great broad...
...much Lord-in-Waiting. In her London circle she has the reputation of holding Edward VIII by her wisecracking, hard gaiety in the most adverse or intimate situations. He has carried fairly heavy pieces of her luggage in railway stations. She has called him "Boysy" to his face in brilliant London ballrooms, spoken of him to their British hostess as "the little man" when he was King and Emperor, kept him waiting two hours in her car outside her dressmaker's. When relatives of hers from the U. S. have been in town, she has taken His Majesty around...
...brilliant, whimsical popularizing of Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington has made ''the expanding Universe'' almost a household word. But the telescopic observations of a universe which seems to be blowing up like the fragments of an explosive shell have come mainly from Mount Wilson Observatory's brilliant Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble. Beginning in 1928, Hubble and his coworker, Milton LaSalle Humason, showed that the light from the most distant nebulae (clouds of stars) which he could photograph in Mount Wilson's giant telescope was shifted far toward the red end of the spectrum. Such...
Surrealism suited his extraordinary technical facility as a draughtsman, his morbid nature. Salvador Dali, with exquisite drawing and brilliant color, began to paint his nightmares on pieces of panel hardly bigger than postcards. He not only made surrealist paintings, he wrote surrealist poems, helped produce the first two surrealist films: Le Chien Andalou and L'Age d'Or. The first had a great deal to do with pianos filled with carcasses of dead donkeys. In the latter the great seduction scene to which the whole film rises is symbolized by a view of a bedroom window through which...
...sensation. Entitled The Persistence of Memory, it showed a group of watches, limp as dead flounders and crawling with insects, drooping from the branches of a dead tree by the seaside, all this on a panel the size of a sheet of typewriter paper and painted in color as brilliant as a Flemish primitive. It now belongs to the Museum of Modern Art and was a headliner in last week's exhibition. Other interesting Dalis exhibited included a drawing, fine as an Italian master's, of a nude woman with a body made of half-open bureau drawers...