Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the paintings were skillfully executed. Most of the schools of painting were represented-from the uninhibited Joe (Get In There and Paint) Alger sect to the ubiquitous abstractionists, some of whom found it necessary to attach typewritten explanations of their work for the enlightenment of our occasionally befuddled judges. Spectators, as usual, were fondest of the good old standby scenes of someone's favorite Nantucket seascape or a nostalgic Connecticut farmhouse with trees...
...stuffed animals smell one way or another," Barbara L. Schevill, curator of Mammals, reported yesterday. According to Miss Schevill, the four-foot cetacean was removed from the exhibition rooms when the sea-blue paint that covered it began...
...described at last week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington (see SCIENCE). This week a small sailboat made of the same plastic took honors in the first postwar plastics competition sponsored by the magazine Modern Plastics; the boat is impervious to marine worms, needs no paint and can withstand bullets fired at close range...
...since he was cleared of charges of collaborating with the Nazis. The movie was mildly applauded in Paris, but stirred up an anti-Guitry demonstration in Lyon (TIME, June 7). On its own account, it is worth little fuss of any kind. It is a tribute, redolent of grease paint, to Sacha's famed actor father . Lucien. The son's brittle wit shows to best advantage when he is dishing out impudence, irony and disillusionment. This film suffers from an irony of its own: reverence and honest sentiment do not become M. Sacha Guitry...
...Save Paint. She lays her pictures flat on the table so she can rest her elbows while she is working. Old coffee cans hold her brushes, and on the floor at her feet is a gallon can of flat white paint for sizing the sawed pieces of masonite she paints on. Grandma does her pictures in batches, like cookies, simply to save paint. "I'll use this blue for the sky in all of them, and then I'll take this green for all the trees. That way your paints...