Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beyond the swooning stage. "A few of us," he warned, "incline to rate the new Picassos as little better than disastrous. . . . Picasso, in his recent oil work, may be said to paint vigorously-which isn't being really very explicit, I know. In my opinion his sense of color has grown steadily worse. . . . There remains the matter of distortion, and in that department he moves with the utmost freedom...
...first issue would probably feel that what some of the nation's top writers "have always yearned" to tell them wasn't much. Articles by Jay Franklin, Raymond Swing and Roy Chapman Andrews had the old familiar ring. The photographic art spreads in color (Will Connell, David Eisendrath) and the gag cartoons (Alan Dunn, Gardner Rea) weren't up to the average of the people who made them...
...Bryant married a dynamic Lithuanian engineer, Albert Malsin. Soon she settled down to trying out her own creations while Malsin ran the business. He started retailing maternity wear by mail, added "stylish stouts," based "on the laws of optics, psychology and color." Making clothes for stout women, said Malsin, was not just making outsized versions of the "perfect 36." It was like camouflaging ships, the object being "to deceive the eye . . . as to the ship's size, its course and its speed...
...that proceeds to full term, is extremely rare, and almost invariably fatal to the baby.* As the doctors wheeled the patient into the hospital's largest amphitheater to operate, word spread quickly; surgeons jammed in to watch the operation, set up a camera to record it in color movies...
Well-disciplined and thoroughly cowed, Vag turned into the eave at 15 Holyoke Street, holding the paper in his left hand, leaving the right free for saluting. Painstakingly, he followed signs to a nice lady and for her read the color-blind numbers, but declined when she asked him to do it again. Upstairs there was some difficulty in the laboratory; Vag bridled a little at the fourth sign in a row saying "Have you forgotten to put your came on the bottle-cap?" and he was annoyed when he reached the doctor's office. The questions started--exactly...