Word: lowness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tourists should, trekked dutifully to the Floating Market and the Cobra Farms, gawked earnestly at the gleaming Emerald Buddha in the Grand Palace temple. Bangkok's shops were bulging with niello silverware, hand-woven silks, carved teak heads and snakeskin bags. What was more, the prices were low. For lunch the visitors ate cold prawns in the air-conditioned Chez Eve,* while an Indonesian quartet imported from Singapore played Slow Boat to China...
...especially that of Prodigy Furuhashi. Instead of the standard six-beat leg kick, carefully synchronized with the arm strokes, he uses a slower, but very powerful kick which at times is not in rhythm with his arm movements at all. His arms revolve stiffly like bicycle pedals; he rides low in the water and, especially to flabbergasted U.S. competitors, he looks like a weird, power-driven machine...
...best in the show, a tempera House by the Seashore (see cut) by the University of Wisconsin's Ray Obermayr, owed an obvious debt to the two living U.S. masters: Charles Burchfield and Edward Hopper. It struck a low blue note characteristic of the exhibition as a whole. Buffalo's Hubert Raczka had painted a lonely little figure through the bars of a fire escape, called it Insignificance. The Portland Museum School's Robert Galaher had wrapped his hulking Circus Worker in a sad, smokelike haze, and Milwaukee's John Pagac had contributed a fatly photographic...
Wall Street was more cheerful last week than it had been for months. With the stock market surging to a new high for the year, the Dow-Jones industrial average closed the week at 181.16, nearly 20 points above the June low...
Sharp Focus. In Fort Worth, police received a routine letter from Twin Falls, Idaho authorities inquiring about a suspected bad-check passer and describing her as "25, 115 Ibs., 5 ft. 5 in. She wore a low-cut dress with short skirt, making it very hard to gain a description of her facial features...