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Applied to such masterpieces as Hans Memling's painting of Bathsheba leaving her bath, Michelangelo's judgment is harsh and crude. Instead of mixing his colors, Memling laid them on pure and thin in overlapping glazes. As a result, the picture seems to glow from within. Its narrow space recedes dramatically to the tiny figure of King David peeping from his terrace. The severely angular composition contrasts artfully with Bathsheba's soft curves...
...would rather sniff in his misery than get well. As such, it is a reekingly unpleasant book; when the author waxes lyrical and theological about his nasty little mess, it becomes a conceited one. Nevertheless, The Dead Seagull has a clinical interest of its own as a crude dissection of evil...
...Then Fire. Then fire was added to water. The flood ripped up a crude oil storage tank and hurled it against a high tension wire in Kansas City, Mo. The flaming tank drifted into more gasoline and oil storage tanks. Flames shot up 500 feet into the air as the tanks exploded. Flaming oil and gasoline raced on top of the flood, while firemen in boats vainly poured flood water back on to the fire. The blaze, fed by more than one million gallons of oil, demolished seven square blocks. The Star called it "Kansas City's most disastrous...
...Kaesong cease-fire talks, world Communism is making a loud, crude but effective propaganda symphony. One of its two themes is Red "victory"; it portrays the "Western aggressors" as wounded, dragged in the dust, waving the white flag, and helplessly suing for peace...
...month ago, Makki was sitting behind a rickety desk in a shabby room in downtown Teheran. Now he was taking over the billion-dollar Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., including the great Abadan refinery, which daily takes 500,000 barrels of crude oil at one end, and from the other pours gasoline, asphalt, kerosene at the rate of 2½ tank cars a minute. Makki is not an engineer but a politician, and busy letting everyone know that he expects to be the next Prime Minister. The "engineers" on his "temporary board of directors" last week included a mechanical engineer with...