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...Danger. The one quality Klee would not tolerate was vagueness. He contrived an elaborate visual lexicon in which he "explained" his favorite devices (dots, lines, arrows, planes) and assigned to each a meaning according to its direction or placement. But, as in Fire Wind (opposite), little more than the title is actually necessary to decipher a Klee painting. The red arrows indicate motion, in this case of wind feeding the fire, while the green arrows struggle to hem the flames in against the background darkness. She Howls, We Play uses lines that are a cross between wire sculpture and children...
...seems that more things went on behind Queen Victoria's billowing black bombazine skirts than her spiritual grandsons have been led to believe. It is probably too late to set matters straight, but Australian Cyril Pearl has made an industrious try at striking "Victorianism" from the lexicon as the synonym for middle-class prudery...
...lexicon of political clichés none is more grimily thumbed than "the weakness of coalitions." And that is odd. considering how many of the great actions of history, from Themistocles to Marlborough to Eisenhower, were won by coalitions...
...Democratic National Committee's $100-a-plate dinner in Chicago (TIME, Nov. 28), Stevenson had borrowed a word from the Eisenhower Administration's lexicon to say that "moderation is the spirit of the times." Within 18 hours after Candidate Stevenson uttered the word, New York's Governor Averell Harriman, one of the faster-moving inactive candidates, called a press conference in Chicago, hammered the desk and took aim squarely at Adlai Stevenson. Said Harriman: "The word 'moderation' is not in the Democratic dictionary. It seems to me you fall into the Republican vernacular when...
...Russia's lexicon, prostitute is such a dirty word that it cannot be laundered by an adjective...