Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frequent victims are bull-necked burghers, drunken women with raddled skin and pendulous breasts, fops with snub noses and muskrat mouths, gaunt marble-jawed soldiers, starving children, slatternmouthed old shrews. All are made contemptible, rarely laughable. The pictures look like a child's scrawls, full of scratchy, distracting detail. But critics perceive the basis of sound craftsmanship, understand Grosz's potent European influence. Knowing that satirists usually resemble their favorite object of satire, pupils at the Art Students' League were wondering which of his figures Herr Grosz would resemble. The new teacher who appeared...
After 18 paragraphs the essay-like opening was blended inter the actual, factual report of the nine-hour procession. Typical alertness to detail...
Working against time as newsmen must, the five wove a spectacular, minutely detailed account of a massive scene. First and final columns, written by Reporters Richards and Martin respectively, were heavy with "atmosphere," shy of specific detail. The lead read as if it might have been written and dressed up before the Legion even appeared in Detroit. First paragraphs...
...other cartoons shown were street scenes of Paris, New York, London and that sport of all caricaturists from Tenniel to Ralph Barton, burlesques of famed paintings. Czermanski's is a subtle satire, the more effective because it relies so little on Distortion. He has a passion for detail. Drawing in a mixture of pencil, pastel and oil paint he builds an effective, hilarious whole by concentrating on a few minutiae: the wrinkles in Secretary Stimson's coats, the gaunt wrists of a Park Avenue doorman, the wild hair and felt slippers of a French bistro waiter...
...Novel detail of the new Boeing is a combination of electric light and Klaxon horn in the pilot's cockpit which automatically flashes and howls if the motors are cut below flying speed while the landing wheels are retracted...