Word: martianize
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...brief as it was−was good. Astronomer E. C. Slipher, of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., recently returned from South Africa confident that Mars, which often suffers from drought, has had an unusually fruitful year. At any rate, the markings on Mars, which shrink and grow with the changing Martian seasons and are believed to be due to vegetation, are bigger and more intensely colored this year than any Dr. Slipher has seen in his 50 years of Mars-watching...
With Narcy's "hairy Martian" as a starting point, the French press ran wild, and a deluge of Martians has been raining down ever since. They have come in flying cigars, crowns, comets, winged mushrooms, even a flying chamber pot. Unlike Americans who have seen flying saucers, the French "sighters" paid little attention to the vehicles. They were more interested in the people from space...
Paralyzing Pygmies. As the Martian invasion of France proceeded, the invaders became more bizarre. A troup of pygmies in plastic helmets gamboled down a railroad track near Quarouble and transfixed M. Marius Dewilde with "a paralyzing beam of light." Some Martians were blue, others were yellow or pink. A traveling salesman of the Cotes-du-Nord saw a wonderful sight: a deep rose flying cigar from which stepped a zebra-striped Martian. As he alighted, he changed color, chameleonlike, from yellow to green...
...Martians marched en masse into French affairs. Cartoonists welcomed them delightedly (see cuts). As they multiplied, they even gained respectability. Le Figaro reported: "Counsellor General of Alpes Maritimes greets flying saucers' first appearance on the Cote d'Azur." France Soir announced that "a daily flying-saucer service seems to have been established between Marais Poitevin and La Rochelle." A man from space even made the social columns of Paris Presse: "Mustached Martian spends weekend at Vienna." Angry deputies asked questions in Parliament. Air Force authorities (even as in the U.S.) were badgered for explanations...
...canvases in the Hartford show reveal, Tanguy has pictured the same desert, strewn with the same rubble, over and over again. His art has changed hardly at all in 29 years. His oils seem to represent hot and cold vertebrae, crystalline antennae and petrified blood vessels, heaped like Martian cairns in a dim wasteland. Tanguy lays no claim to imagination, boasts of having no purpose. Says he: "Seeking is the important thing, not painting. You may think painting is to show something new, but no: Picasso and Dali do that, and they are monkeys. I don't want to show...