Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring sun on the White House lawn. He read the first paragraph of his statement firmly: "The United Nations are fighting to make a world in which tyranny and aggression cannot exist; a world based upon freedom, equality and justice; a world in which all persons, regardless of race, color or creed, may live in peace, honor and dignity...
...Grimace for History. With the help of the Marine Corps, Warner Bros, has given this film fine reticence of sound effect and commentary. The very rawness of the color helps to give a rawer reality to some of the most real things ever fixed by a camera. But after all its fierceness With the Marines at Tarawa ends quietly, with one of the most powerful shots it records. The marines are trooping back from battle. They march toward the camera. One young fellow on the sidelines is smiling, almost with jubilation. There are no other smiles. One gaunt...
...Vlaminck, like all individualists, was irked by artistic schools, even the Fauves. He struck out for himself, began to paint the haunting French townscapes for which he is best known. He also painted flowers whose unusual combination of violence and charm sometimes was achieved by squeezing raw color from the tubes directly onto the canvas...
Soon the late great entrepreneur of modern art, Ambroise Vollard, met Vlaminck who was sporting a wooden necktie which could be painted any color to suit the mood of the wearer. Vollard and other dealers enabled him to buy a small farm near Paris. There, between the wars, Vlaminck lived, with his wife and two daughters. Dressed in an English tweed shooting cap, open-neck shirt, breeches and puttees, Vlaminck farmed, painted, wrote poetry, drove his big racing car at high speed across the countryside. Today, though he probably does not know it, there is a rising U.S. market...
...every race, creed, and color, the chaplains graduated from Harvard's school have undergone training in grave registration, gas detection, first aid, Army administration and routine, map-reading, and military sanitation...