Word: mists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Results were excellent. Lawrence found he could draw fine lines by holding the gun close to the composition board, get mass effects by using a wide, long-distance spray, achieve shadings by spraying one color over another. His specialties are mist, clouds and transparent effects. For difficult objects such as ships he uses stencils to draw the outlines; faces, houses, bridges, trees he sprays offhand. Top price for a Lawrence so far: $25. Last week the Pontiac publicity department took up Duco Artist Lawrence, as a well-turned favor to the du Ponts who make Duco and own almost...
Typical Chanese maxim: "Theory, like mist on eyeglasses, obscures fact." Good shot: the Negro retainer (Stepin Fetchit) losing his flashlight in a tomb which he considers to be a convention hall for "hants...
...Darkness is an emotional tale. For the first 50 pages it reads like a minority report on literary atmosphere ; then the action quickens, the figures take on clearer outline. Author Bishop's mist- clearing method is deliberate: the gradually opening eye which observes and slowly understands the story is that of a young boy. Observer-narrator is John, youngest member of a Virginia family whose blood is proud but queer. His grandfather is an eccentric lawyer. His dead father was a doctor who painted strange pictures. His Uncle Charlie has been a wildly attractive scapegrace from his youth...
From the roseate mist that enveloped him came voices, soft voices, now merry, now serious. Visions danced before his eyes, and the Past, with all its glorious heartache, its reality and poiguaney dimmed by the soothing touch of Time, revolved slowly through his idling brain...
...soak. Word spread quickly and all Budapest society flocked to the hotel café. But H. R. H. was satisfied where he was. When tea time came, he too had tea brought into the men's bath, like the morose old Magyars staring at him dully through the mist...