Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In painting a picture, he approaches the canvas as if it were a door to be broken into to reveal the hidden life beyond. Each line, dot or patch of color -for example, in Lent, the orange splash at the right-gives the artist a sensation and suggests the next...
Popularity has come to her with a rush. Daughter of a Sydney tailor, Joan Sutherland took no formal voice lessons until she was 18. In 1950 she won $2,800 in an Australian singing contest, headed for Britain to study at London's Royal College of Music and landed...
Rembrandt's a Noun. Rothko worries a good deal about the notion of image. " 'Rembrandt' has become a noun," says he, "a noun that conjures up a particular kind of painting. 'Rembrandt' has become an image." So, indeed, in a smaller way has Rothko, and...
In probably the longest, certainly the most intensely sustained metaphor in modern fiction, Greene has made the leper a symbol of modern man, and of the "long disease" of modern life. It is the leper's fate to die piecemeal: limbs, members, features deaden and fall from the still...
The Glee Club was and immediate sensation, for the discovery that college boys could sing refined music so spiritedly mystified and delighted America. The French government invited them for a summer tour in 1921, and crowds packed Symphony Hall several times a year to hear them. A reviewer from the...