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Madison Avenue is certainly not tired of that famous three-letter word, SEX, but it is increasingly captivated by a four-letter word, LOVE. That is the name of a new line of cosmetics that has been brought out by Menley & James, a subsidiary of Smith Kline & French Laboratories. Love was in splashy four-page ads in almost every leading woman's magazine (Vogue, Redbook, Cosmopolitan) and in regional editions of LIFE. At a time when advertising is bolder and nuder than ever, the multimillion-dollar campaign leaves little to the imagination...
...third live vaccine, an injectable one produced in Belgium and grown in rabbit-kidney cells, is being extensively tested by Smith Kline & French Laboratories. Because of its head start in Europe, this may be the world's first licensed rubella vaccine. Additional U.S. testing will probably take a year...
Intricate Jumble. Kline's early Greenwich Village scenes of the late 1930s and early 1940s were sturdily realistic. At the time, he was decorating the walls of the Bleecker Street Tavern with $5 murals, to make ends meet. His break into abstraction was sudden and dramatic. For years, he had been making increasingly simplified sketches; as an art student in London, he had also collected Japanese prints. One day in 1949, he was visiting a friend who had a Balopticon projector; they enlarged several Kline sketches on the wall. The blown-up image wrenched the drawings...
Flaming Boosters. What emotion did he seek to convey? That question he usually begged with a grin. In essence, Kline and his fellows were creating a new artistic language, through the push and pull of the images and the very strokes of the brush, to express emotions that could not be put into words. But, as Kline found himself becoming a success, the task became more difficult. He could now afford linen, instead of cotton, canvas and real artist's pigments, but these, he found, produced a slickness that belied his deliberate crudeness. His compositions became larger and more...
Hardest of all was the use of color. Sporadically, through the years, Kline tried and failed. Black and white, the nouns and verbs of his paintings, could talk to each other in a stately pidgin English, but colors, the adjectives and adverbs, often garbled the conversation to an incoherent babble. Only in his last years did Kline make color do his bidding. Orange and Black Wall, one of his later paintings, lunges upward and off the canvas like a giant rocket, rising up on the strength of its flaming boosters. Red Painting mounts an enigmatic black rectangle in a morning...