Word: outwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such distortions dramatically extended the range of metaphor in Picasso's own work. The walls abound with pictures of women treated as moon goddesses, as concrete skeletons on a beach or as interlocking arabesques with strange, brooding masks. They reveal little about the outward appearance of the numerous women who have responded to Picasso's own vitality, but they clearly record Picasso's own often savage counter-response. With children (he has four) Picasso has almost invariably used distortion sympathetically to reinforce rather than mock childhood's peculiar and perilous excitement...
...knew where clear writing would not get him. At the end of Homage to Catalonia Orwell wrote, "I have recorded some of the outward events, but I cannot record the feelings they have left me with. It is all mixed up with sights, smells and sounds that cannot be conveyed in writing." It was a part of his respect for privacy--his own and others'--that Orwell made no claim to go farther
...Emperor's highest painting award, the Golden Girdle, before he retired to a Buddhist monastery. He dashed off such inspired sketches as his Ink Brushing of an Immortal, showing a monk tearing off his shirt to prove the indifference of the enlightened man to outward appearances...
...Eclogues (TIME COLOR PAGES, June 6, 1955). Today, at 81, the holder of nearly every award the art world has to bestow, Villon can sum up the goal he has largely achieved: "to express the perfume, the soul of things of which science only catalogues and explains the outward appearance...
...future. He bought half the company (100 shares at $500 each), raised another $90,000 to help buy three twin-engined Lockheed 125, and became Varney vice president of operations at $400 a month. Varney changed its name to Continental, and Six, made president in 1938, slowly plotted routes outward from Pueblo to Denver, by 1948 had 2,772 miles through Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma. As a further step, Six made interchange deals with American Airlines, United and Braniff. which permitted him to book customers to the West Coast...