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...nightfall, the sandpile had taken on fresh interest. Dark, and obscured by the ocean mist, it made a wonderful hazard for cars. A little crowd gathered hopefully to watch the fun; two soldiers on the curb held hands with their girls; some carpenters sat by a small fire and listened while one played a guitar; couples out "footing" (walking) paused and leaned against a nearby wall. TIME Correspondent Donald Newton looked on from his balcony. Everybody laughed as car after car swerved just in time to avoid hitting the sandpile...
...familiar to U.S. art lovers as chile con carne, but the only Canadian art most Americans see are the Indian chiefs and yellow wheat fields on railway posters. This week a handsome book on the subject (Canadian Painters; Oxford University Press, $6.50), appeared to dispel the northern mist...
Ancient Art. The origin of the enema is veiled in the mist of antiquity. The Hindu Vedas hint of its use in 2000 B.C. In the sth Century Herodotus noted that "the Egyptians clear themselves on three consecutive days every month." The Egyptians learned the art, said the Roman Naturalist Pliny, from the long-beaked ibis, who "washes the inside of his body by introducing water with his beak into the channel by which ... the residue of our food should leave...
...back streets. Artist Jack Levine was born on one, in Boston's grimy South End, and he has never achieved the coolness and balance of a Phidias or a Copley. He puts his passion into pictures in which rich people look like withered apples seen through a mist of rage...
...mind. There was little warmth in the Lewis office, only reverence. "Some great statesman once said the heights are cold," John L. orated in 1940. "I think that is true. The poet said, 'Who ascends to the mountain's top finds the loftiest peaks encased in mist and snow...