Word: epic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another insight into Persian painting may be gained from a portrait signed by the artist Aga Riza. This is dated about two and a half centuries later, from the end of the sixteenth century. Now there is no epic tale but a contemporary person, not an anonymous craftsman but a celebrated artist. Now it is studied delicacy of drawing, conscious rhythm of inner and outer line, but there is still the Persian abstraction. The body is without weight, a mere pattern of pleasing shapes of color, the pose is without stability...
...comers he certainly is one of the foremost of artists who have drawn in the North. On more specific grounds I would cite for their special excellence his perspective, his action, his strong sense of both the pictorial and dramatic impact, and above all, the values in his comprehensive epic of Eskimo life...
...Houston considered herself a Conservative, but made her otherwise mediocre weekly memorable for the blatancy of its attacks on Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who she believed were plotting to sell out the British nation to the Bolsheviks. A plump, imperious person, voluble to an epic degree, Lady Houston died last month, her age, which she had kept secret, probably 65 to 70. Since no will was found, Lady Houston's former associates were left to issue the Saturday Review as they saw fit and as best they could...
...utilities tycoon, that the movement holds no threat to business. The co-operatives grow, getting recruits from a sharecrop per's family, a girl who escapes from white slavers, an anti-Fascist Italian barber, religious fanatics, diet faddists, a young doctor, disruptive Communists, well-to-do radicals. The EPIC campaign shakes it and the contradictory government pol icy toward self-help co-operatives nearly wrecks it. Sig Soren (now happily mar ried to the girl who escaped from the white slavers) visits Washington, confers with President Roosevelt, and the book ends with his wondering what stand the President will...
...friendship struck a reef because Miss Pickford had begun paying real money ($1,000 to $3,000) for guest appearances on her "Parties at Pickfair" program in the interest of National Ice Advertisers Inc. "Lolly"' Parsons threatened to blackball anyone who showed up at "Parties at Pickfair." This epic controversy was terminated when the Pickford program went off the air. Meanwhile, under the guidance of famed Radio Producer William ("Bill") Bacher, a onetime dentist, with Crooner Dick Powell and "Lolly" Parsons as continuing talent, Campbell's clambake goes serenely...