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...watercolors are on the whole less inspired, with the exception of Katherine Compton's bold, stylized head "Medusa" and Margaret Philbrick's "Willard Brook." Charles Demetropoulos demonstrates his usual skill in the treatment of reflections; a very wet wash catches the slick rain-swept pavement outside the "Museum of Fine Arts." Unfortunately he is not so meticulous in the overall composition...

Author: By Michael Angelo, | Title: Cambridge Art Association | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...Buffington plant in Gary. Ind., which will be the largest new production unit built in the past 15 years; New York's Lone Star Cement Corp. will spend $14 million. Other companies that are busily expanding: Ideal Cement Co., General Portland Cement Co., Peerless Cement Corp., Medusa Portland Cement Co. and Keystone Portland Cement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Solid Cement | 3/7/1955 | See Source »

Somebody's face...should at least have a slightly crimson tinge when he finds out that the hero who shielded himself from Medusa's deadly charms was Perseus and not Jason, as stated in your Jan. 17 Cinema review of Animal Farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

Orwell wrote in the reverse English of the ironist: when he is most grim he reads most gay, and such laughter is a Jason's shield against the Medusa he is facing. In the movie all sense of humor is discarded, and the audience is asked to look the Soviet horror square in the eye. The film, in short, is a shocker that demands not customers but a sort of resolutely determined suicide squad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 17, 1955 | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

Most of the processing work is done by remote control. The quieter isotopes can be watched through glass or plastic. The stronger ones must be watched with mirrors, as Perseus watched Medusa reflected in his polished shield. The gamma rays they send out pass right through a mirror and do not strike the worker who is watching from one side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Factory | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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