Word: eyeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this bundle of paprika to the Peanut and then sank back with a sigh. The harpoon hit the little - right in the solar plexus, and went right through him. It was a clean hit, but beyond turning green and losing the power of speech, he did not bat an eye. He just said to me, 'I understand.' And sat in silence, jigging one foot. At least F.D.R.'s eyes have been opened and he has thrown a good hefty punch. I came home. Pretty sight crossing the river: lights all on in Chungking...
Abstractions made of pinned scraps of colored paper (see cuts) cover the bedroom walls. To the hasty eye, they might seem as inconsequential as a game, but Matisse himself is deeply proud of them. "Only when one has reached complete maturity and mastery of color," he explains, "is it possible to do anything like these. They might be compared to direct carving in sculpture-the same thing accomplished in color that Michelangelo did in stone. They are the result of my long career...
...tradition Matisse chose to explore had never quite disappeared from Europe. It still existed in playing cards, tattooing and music-hall posters. They created no illusion of space or of sculptural form, though understanding some of them meant reading form and space into their flat designs. They delighted the eye through an interplay of only two elements: color and line. Matisse set out to do the same...
Music, with Echoes. Matisse's revolutionary synthesis through the years has become increasingly lucid, brilliant and gay. Now his subject matter means little; the colors are the thing. And each color, linked in loose, insistent rhythms of linear composition, sounds in the eye like a separate instrument: trumpet, cello, cymbals, oboe, harp and clarinet. Freely transforming nature, the paintings resound with symbolic echoes...
...general, rats study men more closely than men study rats. Mr. J. L. Nicholes, rodent specialist, is not only rough on rats (he claims to have killed 25 million), but .he is one man who has had his eye on them. Recently he published a book, Vandals of the Night (Publication Press, Pasadena; $2.50), which contains the hoarded fruit of his long, close scrutiny...