Word: designs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...played the part of a Greek woman, Electra who, to avenge her father's death, spurs her brother on to slay their adulterous, murderous mother, Clytemnestra. Simultaneously, hard by Manhattan, a real U. S. adultress and her paramour were on trial for their lives for having prosecuted a design very similar to Clytemnestra's by methods scarely more gruesome than those set forth in the play. The U. S. man and woman, were sent to the electric chair, objects of public horror. But from the circumstances that Miss Anglin's play was written when there were giants in theatreland?...
...interior of each of its five cars is carried out in a different period design, reflecting the Montezuman glory of ancient Mexico, the rich transition styles, and finally the highly futuristic treatment of contemporary Mexican artists...
...design, the strangulation of each prisoner was made as slow as possible, increasing the agony. Prisoners looking on did not know whether or not their throats would be the next to be squeezed, their eyes the next to bulge from tortured sockets. One prisoner was a woman. To strangle her took ten minutes...
...plan will provide a more thorough and more unfilled professional preparation. With only one year at its disposal, the School has been under pressure to give practical training at the expense of courses of a more fundamental character. Hereafter, our program will be, at least in its design, a program of training for educators. This does not imply that any student will leave us without some training for immediate and effective classroom teaching, administrative work, or other special educational service. It means only that we shall now have the time to arrange a curriculum for every student which shall...
...That it is the work of Titian all the critics who have seen it, with remarkable and unusual accord, agree. The noble design is his invention, and no one but he could have carried out in this rich and lustrous color such subtleties of detail, combined with breadth and solidity of form. Examine it closely and note these subtleties- the unevenness of the skin; the differences in the texture of the flesh, how here it sags and there it is drawn taut over the bones; the folds about the eyes; the slightly swollen lids, somewhat bloodshot; the inhaling nostrils...