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...paintings are his best yet. Kingman composed each one as elaborately as a Chinese puzzle, lit them with hectic dabs and flashes of bright color, and peopled them with wistful or sometimes sinister figures that seemed to hover uncertainly about the edges of his pictures, like the onlookers that interrupted his work. The paintings are crammed with signs reading Coffee Coffee Coffee, Goat, or ABCDEFGHIJK, and with crooked street lamps, unlikely stoplights, and one-way signs that often as not point straight up or down...
Visiting diplomats find Washington society more hectic, more alcoholic, and less chic than that of European capitals. They go to parties because they have to: drawing rooms are their workrooms. But they miss the sure social structure of London, the intellectual tone of Paris, the darkened grace of Rome's great palazzi. They deplore the fact that official Washington society is made up of small-town politicians, uninteresting businessmen, journalists, and wives who wear the same dress three or four times. Embassies used to be consecrated ground for uninhibited splendor-but no longer. Now host and guest alike feel...
...which the characters float, entranced, from one sensational rousing to another, and all the sideshows are put on by the powers of darkness. Figures that symbolize evil, dissolution and death are either beautiful or hypnotic; ordinary grownups are scornfully and crudely caricatured. All this involves a good deal of hectic overwriting. Truman Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms (TIME, Jan. 26, 1948), won loud praise from a few critics, softer praise from some better ones. He is certainly one of the most talented writers lately out of school, but his future would look wider if he could...
...hectic third period two minor fights broke out, Kittredge and Tom Moseley being the Crimson players involved, but no penalties were called. For the record no penalties being called seemed to be the order of the day in New Haven, as Yale players made copious use of the elbow as an offensive weapon and both sides engaged in aimless tripping and charging...
...After 19 years, the Pittsburgh Bulletin Index quit. In its hectic lifetime, the B.I. had been at times a society chronicle, at times a muckraking political journal. But for most of the last 15 years, it had been a regional newsmagazine (peak circ. 12,000). The changes failed to turn it into a moneymaker. At the end, it was losing $1,000 a week...