Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neither expects nor inspires pomp & circumstance, he still likes to sit up late over a poker table, drinks branch water and bourbon, and roars when his military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, tells an off-color joke. He has learned to duck embarrassing questions, but he is still capable of insisting stubbornly that the spy hearings are "a red herring" long after the charge has become ridiculous...
Sometimes, as happened last week, Marsh's cast of characters appears uptown, in a thick-carpeted gallery. He presents them in big, delicate drawings done with a brush and Chinese ink, and oils gleaming with thin glazes of subdued color. He worries continually about his methods, buttonholes fellow painters for advice. "I never know just how to go about a picture," he explains. "Each one takes a new focus...
...Atlanta Constitution found a way last week to make high-priced newsprint carry both editorial matter and advertising in the same space. The paper first printed a one-color ad for Delta Air Lines, then printed the financial page over it (see cut). Adman B. D. Adams, who thought it up for his airline client and ran the ad in four Southern papers, said graciously that any newspaper could use his idea...
...assistant professor of Music here, took over from Koussevitsky to conduct his work. "Agile" and "clever" are the adjectives most frequently used to describe his pieces, but this has moments of seriousness as well. The melodies are gay and keep breaking through an orchestral background which flashes with color. I enjoyed each moment but felt an absence of overall unity...
...interesting, and never becomes impressive. Between the two extremes of which Sartre is master-the phony thrill and the incisive speech-lies a whole human world he barely grazes; his situations ring hollow, his people seem paperbacked. Only Hoederer, in Actor Boyer's fine portrayal, has shape or color; indeed, the best of Red Gloves is what Boyer brings...