Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your fine story of the Alger Hiss trial [TIME, July 18] ... is a credit to American journalism and presents a completely clear picture of the entire case...
...over the world the paintings which best represented the renegade Frenchman's art. Fifteen hundred visitors trooped through the Orangerie every day to inspect the pictures of sable-skinned, expressionless Tahitians lounging somnolently along lush tropical shores, the earlier canvases of rolling Breton hills plotted out in poster-clear patches of color. Critics hailed the exhibit. Said one: "The best retrospective show ever staged in France...
...approaches the microphone like a polite salesgirl (which she also was) addressing a customer. About half the time, Mindy is not at her best. She still has to jog the echoes of half a dozen better-known singers out of her ears; but in top form, her voice is clear as spring water...
...Emily." She turned her head . . . towards him helplessly . . . Dorset said in his sultry voice, his voice of a purring tiger: "I am going to kiss you, Emily. Do you mind?" She felt herself dissolving . . . His eyes, clear and ice-grey between their long lashes, were full of moonlight...
...taught Venetian art to loosen its stiff Byzantine and Gothic joints. In his Pietà with St. John, which shows Mary supporting the body of Jesus while the dazed John stares into the distance, Bellini brought the tightlipped, hot-house Byzantine virgins of earlier Venetian painting out into the clear sunlight of the Italian countryside...