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That Duclc Pond. From the solemn solidity of his oils to the airy sprinkle of his watercolors (see opposite page), Homer made reality serve his intense colorism. From the late 1880s on, wherever he traveled, he snapped away with his Eastman Kodak No. 1. Using photos and drawing upon his early training as a lithographer, he captured actuality, studied its nature, and then bent it to his artist's will. In The Lookout, Homer used a Maine neighbor, John Gatchell, as his oilskinned model. He rummaged junk shops to find the bell that served to symbolize a stalwart ship...
...tatsu's Waterfowls in Lotus Pond is also a kakemono, or hanging scroll, mounted on silk, that shows the development of Japanese art into the early 17th century. Its impressionistic look stems from the artist's technique, known as tarashikomi, the brushing on of successive tones of ink while the underlying ones are wet. Appropriately for "bird's-eye" perspective, the bird below may be smaller than the lotus blossoms above, but the viewer reads it as floating in the foreground...
...package of samples worth $2 or $3, then charge their customers about 290 for it. The eight or more items in a men's pack currently include Old Spice lotion, Gillette blades and Alka-Seltzer; the women's pack has, among other items, Pond's cream makeup and talcum, Colgate's Lustre-Creme shampoo and Grove Laboratories' NoDoz. On large campuses, bargain-happy undergrads have grabbed up as many as 8,000 one-to-a-customer packs...
Nothing really happens to Ozu's characters except that they come and go, and leave unmistakable traces of humanity behind. Somehow, his austere style transforms the commonplace into a small, satisfying miracle of nature, the way a pebble makes ripples in a pond. And for earnest moviegoers, Ozu's refined camera technique is a revelation in itself, for he avoids the customary fades and dissolves, shoots every scene from a few feet above the floor, the approximate viewpoint of a neighbor kneeling on a tatami mat. It is an amiable posture, altogether appropriate for one of the world...
...energy an article of faith, Thoreau stayed contentedly in Concord, doing as little as he could. "It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow," he said, "unless he sweats easier than I do." On the shores of Walden Pond, an easy walk from the Thoreau family home, he built the now world-famous cabin and lived there for two years, two months and two days. What did it prove? Nothing. But that cabin, long since gone, still stands in the hearts of men who dream of the simple, peaceful, unfettered life...