Word: paints
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...city's wartime grey is now covered with bright paint glistening in the long northern sun. Bombed buildings have been repaired. A dozen fine apartment buildings have shot up in one Helsinki district since the armistice of Sept. 19, 1944. There are new cottages and barns along nearby country roads...
...show are a documentary gallery of Brazilian plantation life. They also explain the steps by which Ayres is growing up as a painter, identify the bigger men to whom he is still in debt. His cubism comes from early shoulder-rubbing with modernism; having once tried to paint like Mexican Diego Rivera, he has not got over it yet. But much in the pictures is his own. Even more than imagination, the paintings show enormous sympathy for the simple laborers, sure understanding of their lives and myths. The themes of the best of them are primitive, the colors strong. Last...
Nobody Home. When the Germans arrived, Bonnard left Paris to live in a mountainside villa near Cannes. Vichy officials made the two-mile climb to his place, asked the old man to paint the portrait of another oldster-Marshal Petain. Said Bonnard: "If Marshal Petain is a good model, I'll paint him. But, remember, if I don't like my work I reserve the right to destroy it." The Vichyites dropped the whole idea...
...years great divas have smeared their ample bodies with cocoa-colored grease paint or pancake make-up to sing Aïda, Giuseppe Verdi's Ethiopian princess. This week, an Aïda didn't have to bother. In Mexico City's Opera National the role was sung by Ellabelle Davis, a U.S. Negress...
...manufacturers to export semi-luxury products to the United Kingdom up to 20% of the value of their average annual 1936-38 shipments, in some 38 specified categories. (Canada was already operating under a similar plan.) By mid-August, Britons should have token shipments of artificial silks, costume jewelry, paint, etc. Chief reason for the token shipments is not to please Britons but to please U.S. exporters. They complain that Britons are forgetting brand names and trademarks on which millions in advertising were spent. Now Britons will get just enough to make them remember, not too much to cost Britain...