Word: flatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other five of every 100 taxpayers there were other benefits. The optional standard deduction was switched from a flat $500 to 10% of net income (so long as it does not exceed $1,000). Thus, the $8,000-a-year man could list $800 for deductions if he does not choose to itemize them. A bigger saving was in a new allowance after the tax has been computed. For the last two years, this has been a flat 5%. In the new schedules, this subtraction would be 17% on the first $400 of tax, 12% on the rest...
...Department had been canceled, thus leaving Clay in command; 2) Secretary of State George Marshall served notice that "the U.S. intends to continue to fulfill its responsibilities as a member of the Control Council and as a joint occupant of the city of Berlin." The second statement was a flat warning to Moscow that the only way Americans could be got out of Berlin in the foreseeable future would be for the Russians to throw them out-bodily...
...form. He thought it might be interesting to break up the forms in nature and rearrange them on canvas-cubism. Matisse was most excited by colors; he did roughly the same kaleidoscope stunt with them-and took art back to the days of the Byzantines and medieval monks, whose flat, glowing illuminations symbolized instead of trying to counterfeit reality...
...primitive African sculpture: the 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...
...Hindu Pose shows how Matisse synthesized East & West, new & old. The painting makes a flat pattern, but it can easily be read as a design-in-depth; Matisse saw no reason to unlearn all he knew about putting form and space into a picture. It reflects his infatuation with twining arabesques, but they are tempered by a Northern severity, a love of right angles and straight lines. The figure of his odalisque is ruthlessly reshaped to fit the pattern, regardless of anatomy and proportion, and still has charm enough to veil every deformity...