Word: grandmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearing, but highly selective transmission stations which pick up light and sound waves, translate them into electrical impulses, and carry them to the visual and auditory areas of the brain. In the brain, the impulses are finally translated into the sensations that are recognized as anything from a Grandma Moses painting to the radio-chant of the tobacco auctioneer. Most blindness or deafness and many kinds of paralysis are caused by the failure of the transmission station-the eyes, the ears or the nerves of a crippled limb...
...that was rock-solid in composition and rock-bare in theme. It made a notable addition to Hopper's hard comments on the loneliness and scantiness of a lot of city life-paintings that bite deeper than propaganda pictures of the "social-consciousness" school ever could. By contrast, Grandma Moses' glowing, not very "primitive" Out for the Christmas Trees and Louis Bouche's slapdash evocation of the New Lebanon Railroad Station, though just as true to American life, were as warm and easy to take as a sunshiny...
...Imperial Potentate (sometimes referred to as the "Pote") would be named. This year he was no less a person than Harold Clayton Lloyd, of Burchard, Neb. and Los Angeles, Calif., better known as the comedian hero of such Jazz Age films as The Freshman, Safety Last and Grandma...
Movie Crazy (Harold Lloyd: Motion Picture Sales Corp.) signals the 1949 re-issue of seven Harold Lloyd films, including such belly-laughs as The Freshman, Grandma's Boy, and Safety Last. Movie Crazy (1932) is not one of Lloyd's best, but compared with most recent film comedies, it sparkles like vintage champagne...
...Artist Grandma Moses, 88, who rarely strays far from Eagle Bridge, N.Y. for subject matter for her famed primitives, was unimpressed with New York City. "It's nice to be here," she admitted cautiously, "but the city don't appeal to me." "As picture material?" somebody asked. "As any material," she replied, firmly. Then she took the train down to Washington, where she got the Women's National Press Club annual award for art, and the even more impressive compliment of unwavering attention from President...