Word: inking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...street in Lower Manhattan where almost all of the city's daily newspapers were published between 1872 and 1892, was once the symbol of U.S. journalism. But judging from this purely fictional version of the U.S. press in the 19th century, Park Row flowed with blood rather than ink. Snarling, two-fisted Phineas Mitchell (Gene Evans), publisher of the Globe, spent most of his time feuding with beautiful Charity Hackett (Mary Welch), publisher of the rival Star. It was not until the two publishers decided to merge mastheads and themselves that the bloody circulation wars came...
...reproductions in Punch had not done Keene justice. Printed from wood blocks, they were dull and crude compared to the pen & ink originals: flustered old gentlemen and ragged urchins done with fine, soft tones and a master's spare line. Moreover, the public never saw the drawings that Keene did as studies for his cartoons. These were hurried little sketches scratched out on scraps of paper and backs of envelopes: dumpy old ladies sitting spraddled with fatigue, a drunken man slumped in a chair, London swells leaning languidly against a bar. Each took but a few skilled lines...
...three years ago drew record crowds and won wholehearted praise from Italy's usually wary critics. Wrote Leonardo Borgese in the respected Corriere della Sera: "Buttini is no fake. If he has any fault, it is that of being too good." Last week, with 114 of his pen & ink drawings on show at Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, U.S. gallerygoers could understand the enthusiasm...
...while, when he was eleven, Paolo tried sculpture, turned out amazingly good busts of angelic children. But he soon tired of carving and went back to pen & ink drawings with single-minded attention. Outside art, his main pleasures are horseback riding and, latterly, whippeting around the Tuscan hills in a Fiat. Once during the war, Carrara was shelled and his family hid out for two months in a hillside cave. Paolo spent his time profitably, carving pictures on the walls, caveman style...
...drying scrawls of ink on parchment attested that Germany was a world power once more-for good or evil...