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...there came a time when Rivera pooh-poohed Picasso: mere cubism was not enough. Diego's rebellion began one fine morning in 1918, he recalls: "I was just coming out of a cubist show at the Rosenberg gallery when a fruit vendor passed in front of me in the sunshine, pushing a little wagon full of peaches. The sight was so much more beautiful than all those dry, thin abstractions inside the gallery. It made me want to paint the richness we can see and feel, not just intellectual constructions." Rivera was coming back to the maxims...
...have, the severity of labor pains comes as an intense surprise. They are more excruciating than anything you can possibly imagine. I am certainly in favor of spreading the use of relieving drugs in childbirth as widely as possible." But men are not the only ones who pooh-pooh birth pangs, according to Dr. Conrad. Among the toughest opponents of pain relief in Britain are midwives, who want their patients fully conscious so they can take orders...
...reply, Thomas pooh-poohed the argument that business will take care of reforms necessary to cure the country's economic ills. If an unrestrained business can do so, he asked, why are reforms necessary in the first place...
...wheelchair, hammering away at his subject with all the fire left in him. The world is not always with him-in fact, very littl of it is. "[We] still believe ... in the poisonous dogma that 'in the beginning was the word,'" complains the count "Infantilism is rampant . . . Pooh!" On that point, Korzybski is willing to generalize, without date, and without...
...cinemoguls have recently pooh-poohed talk of Hollywood's depression (TIME, Dec. 27), and are pointing out instead how well dividends and box-office returns have been holding up. British film bigwigs like J. Arthur Rank and Sir Alexander Korda are also trying to make light of their economic ills, but it has become uncomfortably plain that a major crisis is gripping the industry that turned out such thriving exports as Hamlet and The Red Shoes...