Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TLIman, recently returned from Warsaw, saw almost no foreign publications on the newsstands there except Russian magazines and newspapers. When he inquired about TIME'S four Polish subscribers in Warsaw (there are 20 others, all members of the U.S. Embassy staff or of American relief organizations), he found that one was a leader of the Socialist party who had left the country, another had died three months ago, the third was abroad, and the address of the fourth was a destroyed building...
...same week the U.S. looked to its military power. Defense Secretary James Forrestal urged one of the biggest defense budgets the U.S. has ever had in peacetime. Despots, he warned, move only when they detect weakness in their neighbors. Hitler had once said: "Our enemies are little worms-I saw them in Munich." There was a parallel in the situation today. "But the odds are not yet on Russia or war," said Forrestal, "the odds are still on the U.S. and peace. . . . For once in world history an aggressor will be forewarned of our determination backed up by our strength...
...exhibition traced Matisse's wavering, laborious progression from his early copy of a dead fish by Chardin, gleaming in mahogany darkness, to the abstract paper cutouts, brighter than circus posters, which he makes nowadays. Advancing room by room, visitors saw that Matisse had put increasing kick in his colors and bite in his outlines as he grew older...
Such post-impressionists as Gauguin, Van Gogh and Cézanne wrenched the wheel further around, by refusing to paint precisely what they saw. They also painted what they felt about it, and they inclined to look more at their pictures than at their subjects. It remained for the living moderns, led by Picasso and Matisse, to give the final twist. A painting, they decided, is a painting first and foremost, and whatever it represents must be secondary. Granted that much, they felt perfectly justified in making their own rules, regardless of "appearances." Some (the nonobjective painters) chose to ignore...
...Hindu Pose shows how Matisse synthesized East & West, new & old. The painting makes a flat pattern, but it can easily be read as a design-in-depth; Matisse saw no reason to unlearn all he knew about putting form and space into a picture. It reflects his infatuation with twining arabesques, but they are tempered by a Northern severity, a love of right angles and straight lines. The figure of his odalisque is ruthlessly reshaped to fit the pattern, regardless of anatomy and proportion, and still has charm enough to veil every deformity...