Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leftist Government last week fired its Navy's Chief Political Commissar Bruno Alonso, also fired all political commissars appointed by him to keep an eye on the politics of Leftist sailors at the Cartagena base. The mayor of Barcelona announced that the Leftist capital has now been raided 23 times, the Rightists having dropped 528 bombs which wholly or partly destroyed 863 buildings, killed 918 persons, wounded 2,549 sufficiently for them to receive recorded treatment...
...obvious one: the wish to combat an atmosphere which is always lugubrious and occasionally sinister. . . . Manufacturers of breakfast-foods, hair tonics and other springboards to the better life have for years covered the walls of subway stations with vivid posters. . . . Young voyagers . . . frequently add a mustache here, a black eye there, thus proving their disrespect for the esthetic effects offered them...
Resentful of the New York Fair, which will be twice as big, San Franciscans point out that their fair buildings are costing slightly more to the acre than the eye-fillers on Flushing Meadows. One item in this cost is presumably the quantity of sculpture with which San Francisco's non-modernist but imposing buildings will be adorned. No less than 20 local sculptors had been working undisturbed with the exposition architects, until meaty Irishman Connick, who was chief engineer for the 1915 San Francisco fair and later finance chairman of Famous Players Lasky Corp., became executive director fortnight...
...holly blooms with heteroauxin, obtained berries. These parthenocarpic fruits contained no trace of embryo, but the plant ovaries swelled up just as though the blooms had been pollinated, the seed coats developed, and the berries, green at first, turned red at the proper time in the autumn. To the eye, they were no different from berries from pollinated blooms...
This week appeared the ninth and cleverest of these jobs: Art Without Epoch, an anthology of 140 examples of "dateless" art from the past 4,000 years. Picked for their impact on the modern eye, Compiler Ludwig Goldscheider's exhibits will be much more fun for most laymen than a walk through the Louvre. An Egyptian mummy portrait* (see cut) done about 200 A. D. looks like the work of a modern illustrator, tricks of brushwork, pretty lifelikeness and all. A Greek idol from 2,000 B. C. is obviously nothing but abstract sculpture. More than...