Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans won again this year in Kentucky, it would have been a horse of another political color. For the Democrats, the victory, while comforting, was nothing to get cocky about...
Manners at the Post. In 1919, when the "golden era" in sport was beginning, it was Man o' War who led the parade. Like Ty Cobb and Jack Dempsey, with whom he competed for headlines, Big Red had color. His post manners, in the days before starting gates, were atrocious. He liked to rear up on his hind legs and terrify the jockey with his lunging and plunging. But when Red settled down to his tremendous stride (once measured at 24 ft.), he broke track records, and the hearts of ordinary horses foolish enough to race against...
...last year. Reason: thousands of composition dolls were ruined in plants last summer; the high humidity prevented the composition from setting. But there are several new dolls. One has a face which can be made to resemble any child's (or adult's) by means of a color photograph reproduced on cloth...
Assignment: Tel-Aviv (Paul Falkenberg; United Palestine Appeal) is the clearest effort among the four to appeal to non-Jews. It is also the least effective. It is no more than a slightly humanized travelogue, in uneven color, narrated by the glossily chummy voice of Quentin (London Can Take It) Reynolds...
Commissar's Delight. Composer Khachaturian's music is the kind that goes over well with commissars-because it also goes over well with the crowds. It has, like Tchaikovsky's music, melody, bounce and color-and basically banal themes. Khachaturian's life in a bureaucracy is therefore not as complicated as that of his musical betters, Prokofiev, the sophisticated ex-exile, or jittery Dmitri Shostakovich, whose musical talents are wrenched by ideology. In the most recent sampling of Russian musical tastes, Khachaturian works proved to be the second most frequently performed in the U.S.S.R. (first, Prokofiev...