Word: patchworks
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Gris's colors were on the flat side-a patchwork of plush green, stained walnut, grey felt and golden oak-but his forms were as many-faceted as a fly's eye. Until his death (at 40) in 1927, he was a master practitioner of cubism as well as its best spokesman...
...scenes of the island battles, Republic has leaned heavily on incomparable wartime film to catch the terrible fury of the Pacific fighting. Unfortunately, by intercutting shots of Wayne & company-studio-lighted in uniforms that don't match those of the real invaders-Director Allan Dwan gets a patchwork that suggests a series of trailers intruding on some bang-up newsreel footage...
...Bidault last week: "We must govern in the center with the aid of the right to reach the goals of the left." This Gallic triple-talk indicated the weakness of the coalition that Bidault must depend upon to govern. As long as the present Chamber of Deputies exists, only patchwork coalitions of devious and delicate compromise will be possible. An increasing number of deputies want to dissolve the Chamber and hold new elections. Yet that would do little good unless there were a change in France's basic electoral law. The present law, providing for an especially dizzy form...
...city better seen at night. Then it had mystery, beauty and grandeur-a mammoth black patchwork, spotted with the pink blossoms of the Bessemers, hung with lights stretching out between the pale river highways, the Ohio, the Allegheny and the Monongahela. In the daytime it emerged in all its sprawling ugliness...
...lighten the atmosphere. Minneapolis' Walker Art Center sent six paintings that demonstrated how diversely students in a progressive art school will advance. They ranged from Reginald Anderson's Figures, a spiky, thin-air abstraction, to Roland Thompson's carefully realistic Culvert. William Chaiken's patchwork Tryst at the Fountain (see cut) was painted at Manhattan's Art Students League, showed the weary sophistication that comes with spending a lot of time in big-city galleries...