Word: drawerfuls
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Even an invitation to exhibit in Pittsburgh's Carnegie Annual is considered an accolade; its first prize is the top U.S. painting honor. For this year's show, most of the 300 chosen U.S. artists were out of art's second drawer, but they were the best available these days. Visitors who plodded through the exhibition on opening day last week agreed that the paintings had nothing in common except craftsmanship-and perhaps mediocrity...
Good fun: the oafish, back-country bears who watch the Bongo triangle square itself. Top-drawer Disney: various dreamlike bits of flowing, beautifully planned motion (notably Bongo's love-dream and the climax of his fight); the marvelously oily thrusting and gropings of the magical plant as it grows & grows through the night; Donald's transcendent Moscow-Arty performance as a medieval duck driven mad by malnutrition...
...kilo in 1940 now cost 1.65 pesos, the stall-keeper glibly blames la situation Rusa or la inundation de Florida. Unconvinced that the Russians or the Florida hurricane has any connection, the housewife calls for witnesses to behold how she is being robbed; she may shout the top-drawer insult hambreador (hunger-maker), wind up with a call for el paredón (wall used as a backstop for firing squads...
...returned to finish his engineering studies. In his room, they found over 200 pages of handwritten notes and documents on atomic processes, other data in the family safe in his home in Mount Lebanon, Pa. Wallis was run down in Chicago late in May. Carelessly thrown in a drawer in his studio were over 200 photographs and negatives pertaining to atomic bomb tests and machinery...
Hermanns compared the present German mind to two drawers, one of which contains the Bible, Faust, Shakespeare's plays and a general knowledge of literature, while the other contains Mein Kampf, the works of Bismark and Frederick the Great, and the legends of the Teutonic Knights. In moments of crisis the German, Hermmans continued, discards the first drawer as "foreign thought values" and turns to the drawer which glorifies...