Word: lifesize
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Precision and finish were the qualities prized by the academicians. Manet settled for a painting "if it only presents a suitable arrangement of patches." And the impressionists who followed him agreed. He could become as engrossed in still lifes as in a tumultuous battle scene, investing neither in sentimentality nor...
Scene by scene, his compositions are works of art-but nearly always still lifes in which a man and a woman settle themselves on a couch or settee to discuss this thing called hove, both gazing trancelike into the middle distance as if to draw metaphysical meaning from the sheer...
Instead of an article lambasting management for its latest misdeeds, there was an article chiding labor for its lack of involvement in higher education. Instead of an editorial calling for the repeal of 14(b) and state right-to-work laws, there was a plea for less labor "ineptitude" in...
It is difficult to know where the courtroom's wood paneling leaves off and Ray Milland begins. His supporting cast may be actors or still lifes. That fine old comic stager Melville Cooper is immured on the bench and reduced to clearing his throat. Still, he is spared dialogue...
Hedda Hopper was the town's genial Scold, Buster Keaton its somber Sphinx; together, they were Hollywood past and present. Keaton's world-the gothic twilight of the silent movie, the pratfall, the Quixote on a treadmill-dimmed when the sound stage dawned. Hopper's world-of...