Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...True North" is the direction in which one points to the North Pole, but compass needles point in the direction of the magnetic pole, which is on the Boothia Peninsula in Northern Canada. Hence, only when a compass is roughly on a prolongation of the line from the geographical pole to the magnetic pole does it point true north. From other points in the world the needle, pointing to magnetic north, makes an angle with true north, and that angle mariners call variation. In the Pacific Ocean the needle points as much as 30° east of the geographical pole...
...confessed and monumental joke. In the last decade he has become a boisterous, likable candidate for the honor which awaits any artist who will seize and work mightily with the material of America. Benton has never painted a picture with the dramatic power of John Steuart Curry's Line Storm or Tornado. Critics have found his color and texture slapdash and harsh compared to that of Iowa's deliberate Grant Wood. But Benton's style, an exuberant combination of cartooning draftsmanship, affectionate realism and tightly organized, undulating pattern, is the most imaginative and distinct of the three...
...which sometimes starts more enduring fashions than Treasure Hunts: the intelligent mastery and transforming use of a great past style. In this case it was the so-called "archaic" coolness and clarity of form of 16th-century French painting, after the great portraitist, François Clouet. The line in Artist Guevara's pictures seems almost engraved; her forms are firmly rounded, spick-&-span, in cool, grey-blue space. Most impressive: the Seated Young Woman (see cut), plump and brown in a red skirt and an airy room...
City audiences may be fascinated by Monogram's conception of Manhattan. The elevateds, apparently by Lionel Toys, are particularly noteworthy. The dialogue is equally rickety. Sample line (by an urchin seeing his first Christmas tree): "It's the kind that grows out of the ground...
Philadelphia's Derhams are three, all sons of the late Joseph J. Derham, a wheelwright and carriage maker who came from Ireland and set himself up on Philadelphia's swank Main Line in 1887 to build victorias, broughams, phaetons and surreys for the Drexels, Pauls and Cassatts. Before long the automobile began to cut into the carriage maker's business. After a haughty but futile effort to ignore the new invention, Joseph J. Derham gave in and adjusted his trade to the times...