Word: semi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PHILIPPINES. The only large and economically important colony ever held by the U.S. got its independence, according to prewar promise, on July 4, 1946. (Puerto Rico, offered independence, chose to remain tied to the U.S. as a semi-autonomous "commonwealth...
...gobbling popcorn. His self-dubbed "spontaneous creations" are flashy signatures squeezed in a frenzy straight from the paint tubes onto one-tone backgrounds. ¶ Edouard Pignon, who went from coal mining and a Citroen assembly line to painting Picasso-flavored landscapes, now adds a lyrical personal tempo to his semi-abstractions. A neat, natural talent whose 1957 oils convey the Mediterranean joy, light and life of a little resort near Marseilles, Pignon is currently on view both in Paris' Galerie de France and Manhattan's Perls Galleries...
...first major studios to recognize the inevitable and get into the production of TV films (Screen Gems, Inc.). But with TV's arrival came the end of Hollywood's unchallenged era. Last week, just before Harry Cohn died, Columbia issued a financial report showing the largest semi-annual loss ($820,000) in the company's history...
...Semi-hysterical outcries did not help. In Miami Beach, Fla., the A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council called upon labor leaders to gather in Washington in mid-March for a "National Emergency Conference" on the economy. In Connecticut, with 8.3% of the state's labor force out of work, Democratic Governor Abraham Ribicoff summoned the general assembly into special session. And in Washington, Capitol Hill Democrats, convinced that recession will be their party's most profitable issue in the November congressional elections, were doing the nation's confidence no good by trumpeting statistics of sag and calling for crash...
Died. Jan Muller, 35, German-born painter who came to the U.S. in 1941, rebelled against the "New York School" ("Abstract art is too esoteric"), was one of the best semi-traditionalists; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...