Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first formal press conference in three years, Premier Nuri asSaid said flatly that Iraq would retain martial law-imposed last autumn after Britain and France invaded Suez-as long as the Soviet Union continued her attempts to penetrate the Middle East. Martial law will be lifted, he said, "when we see that Communism-or, really, Moscow-is going to stop creating troubles among our neighboring countries. I don't believe Moscow is going to stop creating disturbances, so we must be careful not to allow Shepilov, Khrushchev and others to deal with our safety, our policy." As-Said...
...claiming that "Clear Heads Call for Calvert Taste." Its Calvert subsidiary ran the ads despite the Government's disapproval-based on the ad's implicit promise of freedom from hangover. But it later changed the wording to "Clear Heads Agree: Calvert Tastes Better" after a threat of formal charges. While Seagrams nervously denies that it is trying to make a test case for the industry, Vice President
...changed it to "Pour Yourself a Smile. Neighbor" when the Government frowned. The French National Association of Cognac Producers earlier ran a series of U.S. ads describing cognac as the "harbinger of good appetite, a gentle agent to relax tension, a pleasant inducer of euphoria." Though it got no formal Government complaints (the association is technically outside the jurisdiction of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division), it stopped the ads in order to protect its U.S. distributors...
With these few exceptions, the formal element in Gerassi's painting has been reduced to a minimum. What the pictures lack in content of line and structure, they make up in color and texture. The result is "a warm and sunny kind of innocence." Gerassi's preference for emotion over thought is expressed even by the fact that curves take precedence over straight lines or angles. When angularity occurs it is usually accompanied by a more structural effort, where space and form are more defined, as in "Ulysses." But on the whole, the curve, that is the lyric sense, prevails...
...monumental structure of Cezanne's Portrait of Jules Peyron and Rocks at Bimemus, wedded with all the warmth of bristling light, comprises the quintessence of this classic vision. And an early, analytical-cubist Picasso landscape, with its shimmering greys and silvers, shows how formal structure at its purest and most abstract can be fully as moving as more extroverted emotion...