Word: kids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guess they all do, but the fact is I never paint from nature. I make careful sketches and then change everything around. For instance the field in Christina's World is not really that large, but I felt it that way. Ever since I was a small kid I felt it was big. For a month and a half I built the ground up, to make it come toward you, that surge of earth...
...coach watched the big, clumsy kid flounder until he couldn't stand it any longer. He yanked him out of a freshman game a few weeks ago. "Your name's Conway, isn't it?" he asked. The kid's lip trembled. "Yes, sir," he replied. Said the coach: "Well, you're not playing like...
...everything that money could buy, including a 27-ft. sloop, which he christened Trimethy (after trimethylene chloride) and liked to sail when the wind and the waves were highest. A frail, good-looking kid, he picked up dysentery one summer, "chasing rocks" in Europe, and had to be shipped home on a stretcher...
...Francisco's schoolboy quarterbacks; a game was lost last week because one kid quarterback, lacking Albert's skill, elected to pass on fourth down and failed...
Macbeth (Mercury Production; Republic), as Actor-Director Orson Welles tells it in this movie, is not quite the great tragedy of a noble man gone wrong; it is more the story of a dead-end kid on the make. Like an energetic small boy tinkering with an alarm clock, Orson breaks down the drama into bits and pieces-and cannot seem to fit it together again. Nonetheless, it is an interesting, unconventional...