Word: cooling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strangest thing was Marchand's color. The paintings in his previous exhibition (TIME, May 26, 1947) had reflected the cool hues of the Burgundy forest. Lately Marchand, like Van Gogh before him, had made a pilgrimage to Arles and developed a new palette there. Reds, phosphorescent greens and blues, and jet black were his standbys now. Some of his pictures looked like the negatives of color photos, with red skies, blue suns, green sand and black and green nudes. "Color doesn't interest me," he said flatly. "I am trying to extract light from all objects...
Beneath the rain trees the shade was cool. Brown-skinned girls in neat blue middy blouses strolled among the bougainvillea, and in the glittering, pinnacled temples near by, yellow-robed Buddhist priests went about their ritual. In this peaceful setting, on the campus of a Presbyterian girls' school in Bangkok, Siam, 98 churchmen from 15 countries assembled last week to talk over a situation almost as dangerous and difficult as the Christians faced in the days of the catacombs...
...thin crowd, a summer-night buzz of fans interrupted by an occasional drink being shaken at the small bar. It is dark in here . . . Fans in the prayer for cool salvation. From the next booth drifts the conversation of radio executives; from the green salad comes the little taste of garlic. Behind me . . . a young intellectual is trying to persuade a girl to come live with him and he his love. She has her guard up, but he is extremely reasonable, careful not to overplay his hand . . . In the mirror over the bar I can see the ritual...
...outstanding match of the afternoon was Al Sawyer's victory over Wilbur Haggerty. Sawyer came from behind is the second period to overcome a 2-0 deficit and win, 3-2. He is in excellent shape and has good wrestling technique; he is cool, fast, has plenty of guts, and proved he could set his own pace...
...during a tedious speech and being fussily wakened by an aide who had noticed that the TV camera was recording the cat nap. Particularly effective on TV is the contrast between the tuned-down but passionate voices of the Iron Curtain delegates, speaking in their native tongues, and the cool, detached accents of the English interpreters giving a running translation of the speeches as they are being made...