Word: growls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drew sketches and wrote about herself and her friends. On Modigliani: "All he did was growl; he used to make me shiver from head to foot." On Jean Cocteau: "He gave me a necklace fit for a queen." On Utrillo: "Once, after I had been posing for him, I went around to take a look and was knocked off my pins to discover that he had been drawing a little country house...
Robber's Mite. In Detroit, Norbert Schroll, protesting to a gunman who had lifted $56.10 from his wallet that he was on his way to church, got back $1.10 and a growl: "That ought to be enough for the collection plate...
...also known for his gentle patience with misfits. He is widely regarded as a conservative, an enemy of much modern art, but he will cogently defend its vigor and experimentalism. Though he knows and likes his job as only a professional can, he has been heard to growl: "God, how I hate...
Museum of Modern Art, still another kind of composition for tape recorder was unwound: Low Speed, Invention and Fantasy in Space by Otto Luening and Sonic Contours by Vladimir Ussachevsky. Out of the loudspeaker came the sound of a flute-but a flute that could growl like a bassoon, or thunder like the trump of doom, as well as chirp like a bird-and the sound of a piano that seemed to accompany itself with organ tones. Haunting both instruments was a maze of echoes and pulsing overtones...
Otto Dix is a German painter. He likes to growl, "I'm not so tender." And in pre-Hitler Germany he showed what he meant: cynical portraits of German prostitutes and socialites, gruesome oils and etchings of World War I. The Nazis didn't like the Dix kind of thing at all; they considered his powerful paintings deliberately calculated to spread despondency and alarm. They labeled him an "artistic degenerate," kicked him out of his art professorship at the University of Dresden, and destroyed all the Dix pictures they could lay hands on. Dix retreated to a German...