Word: motif
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vases or pitchers ($15 and $20); a tapering Dutch vase that looked like a crystal flame ($60); a set of wide-mouthed pottery bowls ($8.50-$19). China had lively patterns, some designed as much to be looked at as eaten off. Standout: a serving set with a modern flower motif that might have been taken from children's wallpaper (tureen...
...congratulations to Artzybasheff for the motif he illustrated so appropriately on Dr. Kinsey...
...morbidity, the picture is in no sense ghoulish. The children carry through their scheme seriously and tenderly, with a religious sense of dedication. Throughout, there is a subtle blending of a primitively religious motif with the workings of a subconscious death-wish on two ingenuous and sensitive minds, all to considerable dramatic effect. The two children chosen to play the leads--Brigitta Fossey and Georges Poujouly--are in every way equal to the demands of their roles...
...Hugh Casson, 42, who made his name (and his knighthood) by supervising the architectural preparations for the 1951 Festival of Britain, is in charge of decorating London's Westminster section for Queen Elizabeth's coronation. A solemn-looking man, he has taken lighthearted femininity as his motif. "After all," says he, "it will be a woman's day." Reproduced on the opposite page are some of the working sketches which he and his associates have prepared...
...from the ordeal of the flight when he lands on the ground; the camera tilting crazily, as if it were careering through the sky, while focused on Tycoon Richardson shakily listening in his office to a radio report of a crucial test. Through the picture, like a macabre musical motif, runs a sonic soundtrack: great swooping wooshes, the piercing wail of the Vickers Supermarine 535 Swift as it dives from 40,000-ft. heights toward the buffeting, invisible barrier of sound...