Word: patching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaf to the offending parts. As usual in such cases, the drama has been seriously damaged (Playwright Robert Anderson wrote the script), but the sex is still fully in evidence. Indeed, the censor seems in most instances to have used the fig leaf as his own eye patch...
Professional Touch. In Storrs, Conn., after hunting a golf ball in a poison-ivy patch and getting a severe case of poisoning on both arms, Dr. Harriet Creighton swallowed her pride, presided as scheduled over the golden jubilee meeting of the Botanical Society of America...
...natured, soft-spoken Painter Pissarro's place in art was far more that of teacher, peacemaker and counselor than lawgiver. He was ten years older than most of the impressionist greats, and this induced in him a fatherly urge to take time off from his own painting to patch up quarrels, round up shows, hold together the impressionists as a group. Because he remained in the midstream of the art movements of his day. experimenting with each new movement and sponsoring innovations, his works lacked the distinctive quality that makes his contemporaries, Degas, Monet, Manet, Renoir and Cezanne, recognizable...
California's Frederick Wight has nothing against abstract art, except when it is used to express abstract ideas. Abstractions of abstractions, he believes, can only lead to pictures like Malevich's notorious White on White at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. That canvas a white patch on a white patch, might be said to express the idea of purity except that it is too thin and bare to carry the weight of the idea; most people think it must be a joke. Wight's own paintings on show this week at the Pasadena Art Museum...
Some of the hardest-hitting kid-glove campaigns have been waged on small budgets. Among the most influential ads of the past decade, thanks to Baron George Wrangell of the black eye patch, have been the Hathaway Shirt series; for a modest $300,000 in four years, Hathaway boosted sales more than 65%. Other companies have used sophisticated advertising to transform a product's personality. Since Philip Morris Inc. decided to turn ladylike Marlboro into a "heman" cigarette, its ads have centered on a succession of tattooed male smokers; the brand has in less than a year...