Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never been catalogued except in its owner's capacious memory, but its monstrous character has been a popular legend for years. Last autumn the New Yorker tried to investigate one of the five Hearst warehouses, a square block building in The Bronx, and reported rumors that besides a dim array of armor and some mummies it contained two palaces and a church, in pieces...
...Selznick International) is a slick-dandy, too-well-tailored dressing up of Mark Twain's homespun yarn. Its Hollywood pretty-prettiness needs more than anything else to have its face & hands rubbed in good Mississippi mud. But neither time, Technicolor nor cinema trickery can dim the essential vigor of Tom Sawyer. Tom's system for getting the fence whitewashed is still a U. S. classic of super-salesmanship. His mind is still happily mercurial, weighted one minute with the agonizing secret that Injun oe, and not good old Muff Potter, killed young Doc Robinson in the graveyard; exalted...
...dim one-story garage in St. Louis, Mo. one afternoon last week, ten men gathered to watch a fight-to-death between two brindle American pit bulldogs-four laborers, a streetcar conductor, two merchants, three smartly dressed gentlemen. In the centre of the garage, into which rain dripped through the leaky roof, was a crude boxlike arena, 12 ft. square, with an old piece of canvas on the floor. A dirty white blanket was spread on an oil drum, to receive the dead body of the loser. A bucket and sponge were ready to lave the winner's wounds...
Seen thus by dim and bobbling light were 229 objets d'art by 60 artists of 14 different nations, many of them expressive of war and spiritual suffering, many more bearing out the abstruse eroticism of the entrance hall. To Surrealists sex and horror are indescribable and somewhat confused; therefore they merely express themselves on these matters through a calculated but capricious symbolism. At least one exhibit was animated (see cut). One of the objects displayed was a suitcase containing a neatly packed skull and gas mask stuffed with newspapers headlined The Menace of Fascism. Another was an enameled...
Serious U. S. landscape painting began with a Connecticut portraitist named Ralph Earl, one of whose clients paid him in 1800 to paint the view from his farm. The result. Looking East from Leicester Hills, was dim but sufficient evidence that the "U. S. Scene" was already discovered. Among Earl's successors...