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...exquisite pains in pure color dabbing, Seurat was at first subjected to insulting remarks concerning "little green chemists who pile up tiny dots." But art criticism gradually caught up with Seurat (U.S. reviewers of an 1886 New York show were among the first to get the point), and today it is generally recognized that Seurat's method made possible a unique and exciting luminosity...
...ancient. Virgil had lived in the city when he wrote his Georgics. Cicero had loafed among the villas. On its outskirts were the ancient suburbs of Herculaneum and Pompeii, which had been mummified 1,860 years ago by Vesuvius' erupting ash. It was a sight, a pile of palaces, churches, an opera house, university, museum, an aquarium where famous pale octopuses swam in tanks. It was slovenly and filthy and loud. Hoarse-voiced women dumped their garbage from windows, chased their dirty children through the narrow streets. It was one of the great cities of the world. Its citizens...
Abel Bowen's best, laid out in aid of a Philadelphia hair "manufactory" (wigs, transformations, etc.), was a woodcut of a forbidding female whose obviously enormous bust was well upholstered in yards of frills, and on whose head hair was heaped in a grotesque, kinky pile...
...when Veronica blows herself up along with a messy pile of Japs, you forget that she's the babe with the "peekaboo bang" and get a little respect for the American female. About Paulette Goddard: well, she's good too, except now it's a sure bet that Hollywood can't put out a single picture without at least one sheer black nightie...
...they may have accumulated a stockpile of 20,000 fighters. Since for normal war operations over a period of time it is necessary to figure on six planes on the ground for every one in the air, it is clear that the Nazis have been dipping heavily into that pile for the last twelve months. Some calculators in London, watching Germany's desperate effort to ward off the mounting Allied air offensive, estimate that the Luftwaffe would be bankrupt of fighters long before Christmas, that it is almost out of them now. If the calculations were correct, this...