Word: foregrounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Dali canvas to attract general U.S. attention was shown at last summer's Century of Progress Exhibition under its official title, The Persistence of Memory. All Chicago knew it as "The Wet Watches." (see cut, p. 44). In the foreground were four great watches. One dripped over the edge of a table like so much melting butter. A second, like an old washrag, hung over a dead branch. The third reposed on the back of a small monster with a long delicate nose. The fourth, rigid, was crawling with ants...
...figures lie in the fact that, in spite of a dry academic education, he managed to feel and observe nature in his canvases. Like most painters of the period he studied in Rome. He soon discovered the trick of making his daylight luminous by having it trickle through dark foreground trees...
...scores of complaints from graduates and undergraduates about the conditions in the Engineering School bring again to the foreground a department of the University which has escaped the notice of nearly everyone in the College. The isolation began when Engineering School students were banned from the Houses and apparently it has continued during the present administration...
...bank holiday, and the NRA. California changes, and the Jacox family with it. The valley of the Sacramento River, in 1869 a region of deserted mines and straggling, undeveloped farms, and now one of the most prosperous and productive spots in the country, is the background; in the foreground are the farmers, the business men, the politicians, the farm laborers and factory workers, who made and were made by the development of the state. Beneath it all there is this theme: "Progress" results from the efforts of self-reliant, ambitious, ruthless men and women, those who keep...
While the transatlantic airline may be cooperative to an extent, President Trippe is determined that the U. S.- meaning Pan American-shall be in the foreground of the picture, not left to fight its way against entrenched foreign competition as was the case in South America where France and Germany were flying for a full year before P. A. A. got in. Nevertheless, like a wise eagle that scouts before it screams, President Trippe makes no rash predictions. He has not even committed himself to the Greenland-Iceland route, which is only one of seven possible channels across the Atlantic...