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...artist must invent his style," Ensor said, "and each new work demands its own." He could etch the tranquillity of the soaring horizon of the lowlands as did Rembrandt. In one etching of 1888, Stars at the Cemetery, he used sulphur to corrode the copper plate, producing a luminous scumbled blanket like a modern abstractionist. Or equally, Ensor could foretoken the surrealists, as in his ironic view of a flaking skeleton titled My Portrait...
Sweet Talk & Styleplus. In this curiously tribal world Bill was a natural leader. He could hurl wet corncobs at the neighboring kids with greater accuracy than either of his brothers; he could ride a horse bareback as no other Faulkner could; he could invent tales with such surpassing guile that for one whole winter he sweet-talked a schoolmate into slopping the hogs for him-in return for which service Bill entertained him with stories of madness and murder...
...suppleness of creepers. Now return the most ancient times, the unity recovered, the reconciliation of the Lion, the Bull and the Tree Thoughts linked to act, ear to heart, sign to sense. There are your rivers murmuring with scented crocodiles and mirage-eyed manatees. And no need to invent the Sirens. But it is enough to open eyes to the rainbow of April And the ears, above all the ears, to God who out of the laugh of a saxophone created the heaven and the earth in six days. And the seventh day he slept the great sleep...
Many other Japanese tried and failed at the same thing, but Sony succeeded by blending Eastern industriousness with modern Western business technique. The company favors hard-sell advertising, channels about 4.5% of sales into research, and is quick to add its own twist to what others invent. Brags Ibuka: "We have always been the first to see the possibilities in any new discovery and translate it into practical, useful items." After U.S. scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories developed the transistor, Sony became the first non-U.S. company to make transistor radios. Older and bigger Japanese companies soon began competing...
...time, I'd invent a newsmagazine," said Tom weakly-James I. Cook, Blawenburg...