Word: sectional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explosive quality of "The New American Painting," I find abstract expressionism rather dull. Relying on sensational color and muscular painting techniques does not make a painting exciting. The most honestly painted section of a De Kooning canvas is his signature, and Kline is just plain boring after you've seen your first three...
Allow me to inform you that someone spilled some water colors on the pages of your Aug. 4 Art section...
...theater had more than its share of Barnum, the movies committed more Follies than Florenz Ziegfeld, and TV is in effect bringing vaudeville back to life. Today, show business is bigger, richer, more fascinating than ever. To report the world of show business is the aim of a new section TIME launches this week...
...expense of the industry. The company is struggling to win a major market in Canada, and Supersalesman O'Neil-Dunne, speaking in Toronto, claimed that Rothmans' king-size filter brand yielded 14.4% to 38.7% less tars than the four other bestselling Canadian filters. Furthermore, "an increasing section of scientific opinion believes that if the tar intake from a single cigarette were reduced to 18 milligrams,† there would be a significant reduction in the risk of lung cancer...
...quirks that was once invariably fatal, then permanently crippling. The anomaly: a baby, healthy-looking at birth, may prove to have no gullet (esophagus) to carry food from mouth to stomach. Sometimes there is a short, dead-end stretch of gullet at both top and bottom, but the middle section is missing. Often there is an opening between the defective gullet and the windpipe, so that air goes into the stomach and food into the lungs. Exact incidence of these defects is unknown: the best estimate is once in every 5,000 births...