Word: modelied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treatment of line and the philosophic calm an unmistakable declaration of indebtedness to some of the Chinese artists whose works are exhibited on the floor below. Subtle variations in the width and shape of lines, together with the apparently effortless rendition of form by means of this mode, serve to bring out clearly one phase of Picasso's electicism. Despite the fact that no single part of Picasso's career can be strictly called an "Oriental Period," most of his paintings and drawings embody the abstract delicacy of the East...
...place of the usual, objectionable mode of dancing, they urge back-to-back waltzing, with gospel hymns in place of the modern, "voluptuous" music. The hymns, they conceded, 'might be played with such rhythms as to be appropriate for the purpose...
Oddities-of-the-month: Famed Guitarist Phil Lang's band v. Mozart on Counterpoint a la Mode (Brunswick); Joan Crawford, recorded for the first time, singing I'm In Love with the Honorable Mr. So and So (Victor...
...show 'cm," he vowed. And he did. He swallowed five baby white mice a la mode--with lettuce and mayonnaise...
...calculate that soldiers with all their impedimenta can be trucked over any stretch of the system, using only one strip, at the rate of 72,000 an hour. Thus German officers, particularly those of the younger, mechanized generation, are convinced that the Autobahnen will supplant railroads as the prime mode of wartime transport...