Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most gallerygoers the art of Marc Chagall has always been a good deal of a riddle. The puzzle began when Painter Chagall rushed from St. Petersburg to Paris with a canvas showing a decapitated milkmaid floating in an emetic sky while a pink cow was suckled by a pair of pea-green apes on a Russian rooftop. Paris was baffled. Even the Left Bank was slow to understand that Painter Chagall's graphic defiance of the laws of physics and biology was the work of a deeply religious, idealistic young Jew who was merely recreating from his imagination...
There was also his seven-foot, simian, pink alabaster Adam, sometimes referred to as "a biologist's nightmare" or "three tons of ugliness." An Australian gold miner bought Adam for $35,000. For like Epstein notoriety, Epstein prices have soared steadily upward. In each esthetic crisis Sculptor Epstein has remained cosmically bland...
...gone to town with Steam Is on the Beam, but his score is on the whole unexciting. Finally, though pert, attractive Ingénue Miller is a promising newcomer to Broadway theater, the cast contains none of those accomplished showmen who can amiably bully the audience into thinking that pink is green...
...Middle East," Major John R. ("Killer") Kane stood before a map of Navarino Bay and gave pilots and crews of his bomber squadron a last-minute briefing. Airmen set their watches to the split second, piled into their planes. They were big four-motored Consolidated B-24s, painted salmon pink for camouflage and lettered with such names as Hail Columbia, Natchez to Memphis, Jersey Jerk, Alice the Goon. For these men of Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton's Middle East air forces, who in the last 110 days have made 90 raids over Libya, Southern Europe and the Mediterranean...
Always there were long, blue, green and pink reports from the Combined Chiefs of Staff?the Allies' nearest equivalent of a global command, which General Marshall was principally responsible for organizing last February. Usually these reports were from Britain's Sir John Dill or his subordinates, or from the U.S. Navy's Admiral Ernest Joseph King, if some matter touching the interlocked U.S. and British navies had come up. If there were references to the Russians or the Chinese, who consult only the C.C.S., they usually came through U.S. or British channels...