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...least two outspoken architects thought not. Complained Philadelphia's J. Roy Carroll Jr.: "The designs for the most part are pale copies of those executed after the first World War, with the usual classic pavilion, symmetrical stairways and Grecian urns." Architect George Daub agreed: "It should have been competitive...
Shirley May planned to practice for a few days at Dover, before going to France for the big try. She intended to daub herself with the traditional coat of protective grease, but she did not put it so prosaically to the reporters in London's Waterloo Station. Said Shirley May: "I have brought along four one-piece suits to wear in training, but I will swim the Channel nude. I probably won't even be wearing a suit when I enter the water...
...rest, he let the paintings speak for themselves, and they did a good job of proving that Bloom, whatever his subject, was a first-rate artist, who could daub color as rich as Rouault's, weave oils over and under each other with an unerring eye, hit his spectators hard with whatever his imagination wanted to get across...
Suckers are the people who are sold on names, and who acclaim any daub that bears a famous signature...
Mexican prisoners scorn anything like escape art. Instead of landscapes, birds, or flowers, most of them daub away at private horrors. Samples: a half-human fetus turning away in fright from a street, a huge fist clutching eight cadavers, skeletons, three starved men craning their necks to catch driblets from a single spoon. One lifer, condemned for the murder of his wife and children, had dreamed up a lovely woman trailing blood across his cell floor...