Word: cobwebbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Renoir wrote those words (in 1882) his deft blottings pleased his impressionist friends but not himself. Like Monet, Sisley and Pissarro, Renoir had learned to see nature as a dazzling cobweb of colored light, where the shapes of things melt and blend like mist. But at 40 the spare, scraggle-bearded painter grew suddenly sick of mistiness, went digging for solid forms. He became a student again, and spent the next two years in life classes, learning to draw...
...cobweb of international air routes already covers most of the globe. This week U.S. flag airlines, directly and by proxy, added three new threads...
...spite of these numerous disadvantages, the editors have come to feel a certain attachment to the depressing place. To this day each graduating 'Poon man takes a bit of cobweb from the business office. But the most eloquent expression of these touching sentiments came last spring, after a mob had stained a glass window with a grapefruit. "I love this building!" sobbed the tearful president, as he placed a square of cardboard over the broken pane...
...denied that the War Department needed a building like the cobweb-shaped Pentagon. Washingtonians could even explain its intricate network of clover leaves and curlicues that wound and curved for some 28 miles about its five-story sides, its network of approaches that eliminate grade crossings. These had been planned and begun before rubber and gasoline shortages were real. But no one attempted to explain the $21,000,000 these roads and bridges would cost...
Among the show's 105 exhibits, including dolls, idols, ceremonial masks by American Indian primitives, was work by Painters Masson, Delvaux, Chagall, Tanguy, Magritte, Vail, Hirshfield. Of those canvases faintly visible behind the 7-ft.-high string cobweb was a huge new Freudian nightmare by Surrealist Ernst. Painted specially for the exhibition, Surrealism & Painting depicted a nest of multicolored bosomy birds, from whose naked, writhing limbs a semihuman arm emerged to paint its creator's conception of the disorderly universe. In the next room hung early canvases by de Chirico; also three recent Picassos, one of which...