Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show . . . certainly reflects an advanced stage of the disintegration of modern painting. But it is disintegration with a possibly liberating and cathartic effect and informed by a highly individual rhythm . . . At every point of concentration of these high-tension moments of bravura phrasing . . . there is a disappointing absence of resolution in an image or pictorial incident, for all their magical diffusion of power . . . Certainly Pollock has carried the irrational quality of picture making to one extremity . . . And the danger for imitators in such a directly physical expression of states of being rather than of thinking or knowing is obvious . . . What...
...gets his exercise by hiking through G.M. plants, where he enjoys listening to the syncopated rhythm of the production line. While walking some guests through Chevrolet's forge plant recently, he stopped to watch a young Negro feed long, red-hot rods into a machine which twisted them into knee-action coil springs. "Look," Wilson nudged a visitor. "He's going to let the rods pile up to show us how fast he can work. See how he gives the ends a little twist? He's our best man on this job because...
...diplomatic corps wearing bright tarbooshes and sashes, and notable sheiks in brocaded turbans and gowns glistening with gold and silver. Last of all came the vengeful members of Nokrashy's Saadist Party, carrying their leaders on their shoulders. "Dam-Bid-Dam" (blood for blood), they shouted, in rhythm with the drums...
...said that she had put Joe Louis (and his ghost writers) up for election recently to the American Institute of Arts and Letters on the basis of the fine rhythm is his "Life Story." "This was greeted by riotous approbation, not directed so much to my good-will as to my judgment." She then said something about the "Sunday School" approach to writing having its values...
Thirteen Radcliffe Dolphin Club members will swim to the beat of a tango rhythm at a water-ballot symposium in the Wellesley pool Saturday at 2 p.m. Swimmers from Wellesley, Smith, Wheaton, and Massachusetts University will also participate...