Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past, Matisse's studio had always been as gay as a toy shop, sparkling with pinned-up scraps of colored paper, polished brass bric-a-brac and bright swatches of silk. This time it was chaste and bare. The only colored paper cutouts that remained looked like designs for stained glass windows, which they were...
After this tiff, Fairless' statement that in 1949 the steel industry hoped to turn out 68 million tons of finished steel, 3,000,000 more than the past year's peacetime record, seemed like an anticlimax. His point: without the industry's high earnings, steel companies could never have built the plants for this expansion. In the first nine months of 1948 U.S. Steel had spent $198 million on property...
Newcomer Betsy Drake seems to have studied, but not learned, the tricks and inflections of the early Hepburn. Her exaggerated grimaces supply only one solid laugh-when Hero Grant mimics them cruelly and accurately. In the past, Gary Grant has shown a talent for quietly underplaying comedy. In this picture, he has trouble finding comedy to play...
...half dozen students came in tuxedoes one morning at 1 a.m. and said they were invited to a 'private' opening; I didn't let them in," Shean revealed as he ended his final stint last night. "The only outsider that's gotten past me during construction was a small gray kitten, but I've had some pretty close calls...
...fellows sure went to a lot of trouble," he claims. "I can't figure out why so many were so eager to beat this morning's opening." Over 100 assorted people have at one time or another tried to make it past the front door in the last few months...