Word: faste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brow view, most artists are screwy. In any view, two of the screwiest living artists are Painter Salvador Dali and Actor Harpo Marx. It is natural that two such surrealists should be fast friends. Early last year, while visiting in Hollywood, Dali sketched his friend Marx in pastels. Last week the odd result was hunting a buyer in San Francisco. Agent Julien Levy's price...
...lately caught on, and An Optical Poem by Artist Oskar Fischinger, a visual translation of Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, was released last spring by MGM. In Len Lye's new and slicker film, the hot music not only is heard but appears as a complex, fast-changing pattern of brightly or subtly colored shapes. Simultaneous with the trumpet notes of Red Nichols' solo a vertical ribbon of cold green light vibrates on the screen, sways against a violet background. Drum beats appear as expanding dark blobs and are wiped away. A piano solo sprinkles the screen...
...Canadian and Northern U. S. manufacturers. (Current price: $48 to $50.) When a Southern lumberman named Ernest Lynn Kurth announced early in 1937 that he would build the South's first newsprint plant at Lufkin, Texas, the publishers were even more excited. But though kraft paper factories were fast becoming the South's biggest industrial baby, Southern capital was hard to find for newsprint. Texans were more interested in cotton, oil and cattle, were skittish of Northern capital...
...dominant figure he is a marvel and I think he admits it. As a guiding spirit he leaves nothing undone to accomplish his purpose. ... In my opinion under the present setup, no body can effectively regulate such an organization. It is too big, too powerful, its officials are too fast and its lawyers too smart. ... I have seen them juggle their books, juggle their cash, juggle foreclosure sales where they were both buyer and seller, juggle their taxes, juggle their lawyers, their accountants and their engineers...
...other breeders, in Kansas and in Iowa, were adding Aberdeen-Angus to their herds. The blacks began taking prizes, first at local shows, then at the Chicago Fat Show, then at the first International. In latter-day Internationals, when yearlings began to carry off top honors, the Angus, a fast fattener, was again & again the favorite...