Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carmel, N.Y. studio one winter morning in 1939, a harried artist packed a portrait into his station wagon and headed for Manhattan. As the car slithered down the slippery lane, one of the doors jounced open and snagged a roadside pine. The door was left behind dangling on the tree as the car sped...
...brushwork brought every inch of the canvas to life, and created an illusion of space filled not only with figures but with air, odors and heavy thoughts. Levine's message to his fellow man was no longer propagandistic, but moral. Gangster Funeral may, like Hogarth's Gin Lane and Lautrec's Elles, live far beyond the age that inspired...
...LANE...
...years in prison to teach him his lines. Yes, said the dead, obedient voice, he had worked secretly with the Nazis during the occupation to keep the people "meek and cooperative." He had helped American officials to "prepare a new war." Ex-U.S. Ambassador Arthur Bliss Lane had paid him off for his espionage with a gold fountain pen and large sums of money...
...built for the U.S.-on paper-by a group of practical dreamers whose job it is to foresee the needs of the future created by the growth of the U.S. economy. These dreamers are planners of public works for city, state and federal agencies.They have already blueprinted continuous, multi-lane highways girdling the nation, overhead expressways and underground garages for cities, spanking new schools and hospitals for all the U.S. Estimated cost of all the dreams: $100 billion...