Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does he make his pictures look so real? Placing his fingertips gently together, Leigh tried to explain the vanishing art: "You start with a detailed charcoal drawing and then paint over that-the most distant thing first. If there are no clouds, the sky may take no more than a day. The distant figures may be done in a week. It gets more difficult as you approach the foreground-a large canvas may take four to six months altogether- but the most economical way is to finish as you go. At least that's what / was taught...
...explain the last portrait, which Picasso painted in 1939, Sabartés repeats a puzzled dialogue with his own doctor, who had never before seen a Picasso. "What astonishes me," the doctor had sensibly remarked to Sabartés, "is to see the nose going one way and the lips and chin another, as if the face were in profile, and the head both in profile and full face at the same time but in a different direction from the eyes, except that one of them is hanging in the air while the glasses are upside down...
Generations of scientists have tried to explain how the solar system began. None of the explanations is wholly adequate. The trouble is that the solar system is not a haphazard collection of planets buzzing around the sun. It has remarkable "regularities" which indicate that all its major members had a common and systematic origin...
...from his novel Breakdown; produced by Paul Czinner and C. P. Jaeger) is a very exhaustive, and very exhausting, study of a dipsomaniac. It reveals Ellen Croy, a Manhattan newspaper columnist (Elisabeth Bergner), as a driven soul, harrowed by something in her life which she can neither exorcise nor explain. The play follows her step by step, relationship by relationship-boss (Anthony Ross), husband (Millard Mitchell), old friend (John Carradine)-down into the pit. Then it slowly drags her back into the light...
Germany, who took over only seven months ago, undertook to explain them. To buy its blast furnace and plant from WAA last year, Lone Star had to show firm orders for pig iron. As big, established buyers were skeptical about Lone Star's chances, the company had to rely on small brokers. A typical deal: a contract with one Harry Gale, of Washington, D.C., to deliver 24,000 tons of pig iron at $39 a ton, then the current market price...