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Winslow Homer's A Summer Squall, painted on the coast of Maine, catches the sudden gusts of raw wind, turning the sea into a churning cauldron of menacing green and white caps. Frederic Sackrider Remington's The Scout is the epitome of high adventure in the old Wild West, breathing romance that decades of western movie thrillers have failed to dull. Both paintings are just the thing to make any passing motorist feel that the stop was highly worth while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: CROSSROADS MUSEUM: CLARK ART INSTITUTE | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...witches' cauldron of the Middle East boiled and bubbled last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Toil & Trouble | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...Junior League territory. Most amusing and effective are Wouk's accounts of big family occasions, e.g., the mammoth bar mitzvah* with its ostentatious but somehow touching banquet that finds Marjorie's brother making a grand entrance to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance, flanked by a cauldron of flaming brandy for the grapefruit appetizers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wouk Mutiny | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...volcanic crater of Mount Mihara, they were met by a suspicious detective, who asked what was on their minds. "If you want to pry into our private lives," answered young Takayanagi, "get a warrant." When the detective had gone, the young lovers joined hands and leaped into the sulphurous cauldron where so many before them had met death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Young Love | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

...only in Scene 2. Her role: the fortuneteller Ulrica, who appears for 27 ominous minutes in order to bring the hero together with another man's wife and to predict his murder. When the curtain rose, Marian Anderson was discovered in a shadowy set, stirring a green-steaming cauldron flanked by a pair of skulls. The great contralto was clearly nervous. Her first notes were parched and shaky, and it was only later, when she reached her smooth upper register, that she began to produce those emotionally charged tones that have moved listeners around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Debut | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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