Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kandinsky's sensitivity to color was so extreme that, had he not been an artist, it might have been a neurosis; and the action of one color on its neighbor was the object of study in this weightless laboratory. He was sometimes too ridden with theory, sometimes tangled in the impossible web of his own tiny pictorial decisions. But there has never been a modern painter in whom idea, purpose and act ran more harmoniously than in Kandinsky at his best. Perhaps there never will...
Married. Lord Shinwell, 87, former Defense Minister and irascible Laborite spokesman during 42 years in the British Parliament; and Sarah Hurst, 75, a neighbor and lifelong friend; he for the third time, she for the second; in London...
...made during the turn into the 1930's, the cusp between the silents and sound films. Barely touching on the newer possibilities, it reaches into silent comedy's vaudevillian traditions for many effects and gags. Then after his chair has been moved, or accidentally substituting soap for his neighbor's cheese) is just one mark of his genius. We know that he'll flip his rescuer into the water as he struggles to get out, and we laugh uproariously anyway. Chaplin brings off new twists in a drunk scene and plays those familiar cliches with such finesse that we have...
...necessary to the public. The Judeo-Christian tradition dictates that a man's highest authority is God." Rabbi Balfour Brickner, a director of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, cites the Old Testament to justify whistle blowing: "Thou shalt not stand idly by the blood of thy neighbor (Leviticus...
...Julie Eisenhower's expose of Mrs. Nixon's teetotaling secret during her recent China sojourn [March 20] was a display of extremely bad international manners. Our initial overtures toward our Eastern neighbor could hardly be enhanced by such an insensitive statement...