Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...becomes stilted and overdone in its efforts to keep the action visually diverting. He falls back on the English Diagonal School of photography, which keeps framing the actor with chair legs, room corners and other straight lines. The size of the room strictly confines movement, and Donelly uses a flat lighting throughout. The few excursions outside the room seem to be stuck in mainly as a reminder that cameras do such tricks...
French Milquetoast. Bonnard was headed halfheartedly for the law when, in 1890, he made a 100-france sale of a lithograph poster for a champagne merchant. Flat, clearly influenced by the vogue for Japanese prints, it showed a giddy damsel in bubbly billows. Its appearance on the kiosks of Paris caused Toulouse-Lautrec to seek Bonnard out; it was not until a year later that the sawed-off chronicler of Montmartre made his own first poster. The sale also persuaded Bonnard's father, a war ministry bureaucrat, to let his son pursue art as a career...
...Bonnard was a flaneur and sketcher of Paris street life. Lithography, with its kinship to line drawing and its inherent limits of only a few undifferentiated colors, was Bonnard's proving ground. He embellished sheet music and illustrated the writings of Verlaine, Octave Mirbeau and Andre Gide. The flat stone's print only confirmed him as an outlaw toward perspective, modeling and rigorous anatomy...
Inexperience and the unusually flat five-mile Cortlandt Park course may also hurt Army. The young Cadets have been running up and down steep hills all fall at West Point and may have trouble adjusting to what may be a speed race today...
...course, two miles in length and absolutely flat, curved around the parimeter of the athletic fields near Soldier's Field and finished on the track. It was the same route that the freshmen took in their meet on Friday...