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...last I came under a huge archway and beheld the Grand Lunar exalted on his throne in a blaze of incandescent blue . . . The quintessential brain looked very much like an opaque, featureless bladder with dim, undulating ghosts of convolutions writhing visibly within . . . Tiers of attendants were busy spraying that great brain with a cooling spray, and patting and sustaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Brain Builders | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...waist without a flicker of recognition and settled just south of the bottom. Belts sagged low around the haunch, embracing a girl where there is most to embrace. The plunging neckline, an enticing vista down which men had been peering happily for years, was firmly closed over by featureless cloth. Even evening dresses hovered near the collar bone. Fashion editors burbled of "straight, flat pullovers," "oldfashioned middy blouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Flat Look | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...series is the latest foray in a campaign by Victor's Artists and Repertory Director George R. (for Richard) Marek. His plan: to win new audiences for records by making music "painless." Among his other recent projects: a series of almost featureless "mood music" (TIME, Feb. 22), e.g., "Music to Read By," "Music to Help You Sleep," and a 2 min. 52 sec. orchestral condensation of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata for the disk-jockey trade. Such popularizations, some serious musicians feel, kill not only the pain but the music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in Prose | 5/31/1954 | See Source »

...bronzes became as stylized as his canvases. Matisse's Head of Marguerite (1915) is sharp and delicate, his Large Seated Nude (1925) a study in flat, glossy planes. At the end of Tate's exhibit are his two final works: Venus in a Shell, long-legged and featureless, her arms drawn up behind her head, and Tiara, a writhing, lumpy mass of hair and head. Their date is 1930, and as far as the world knows, Matisse has never done another sculpture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter with a Knife | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...good many ways it was a disappointment. Visually, most of Carmen came through flat and featureless. The second-act inn looked more like a cavern than a tavern, and in the long shots the singers were as faceless as blips on a radar screen. Moreover, there was trouble with the sound reproduction in some theaters. Reported Critic Claudia Cassidy in the Chicago Tribune: "What the sound equipment was up to, besides sandblasting, I'm not certain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Met by Wire | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

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