Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Officer Cyril Senior was at the conn, approaching Rio's broad, mountain-ringed harbor at about 15 knots when, without a hint of danger, came the sensation that strikes terror into every sailor's bones: a sharp, grinding noise forward. The 'Magdalena shuddered to a stop, hard aground on a reef so shoal that breakers creamed over...
...accounts of the short, sharp encounter seemed to tally. Most of the 24,069 fans didn't even see it. Sportwriters, radio announcers and TV took a quick look, dismissed it casually as another cap-snatching caper of the kind that is a common occurrence at the Polo Grounds. But not Fred Boysen. He cried out for a doctor, was taxied to a hospital. There, according to an attendant, he achieved "a couple of really impressive faints." In less time than it takes to beat out a bunt, a lawyer was at his bedside, making talk of a damage...
Among the exhibits were a couple of canvases as sharp and literal as snapshots made in bright sunlight. The curious thing was that Bérard had painted them without models, purely from imagination. When he used a model, as in his portrait of a Parisian torch singer, Mlle. Damia, the literalness disappeared; Mlle. Damia was waxy, unsmiling, delicately pushed out of shape. A few months before he died, Bérard had portrayed himself sitting like a somewhat damp but proud Bacchus on a beach. The painting conveyed the subtlety of his seemingly careless draftsmanship and the atmospheric shimmer...
...Dagwood, Chic Young has a wife (a redhead), two children and a dog. But the Youngs are not models for the Bumsteads, because Young has found that "one family doesn't turn out enough humor to keep a strip going year in & year out." Instead, he keeps a sharp eye peeled for ideas, stores them up for future...
Most of the stories fit what people like to call the New Yorker pattern: sharp photographic action--glaringly-lit scenes into which the reader is lowered like a sound-stage camera on its boom, allowed to look on for a few minutes, and then abruptly lifted out again--terse dialogue and quick images. The people in the stories are finely brushed-in, and Miss Jackson knows how to use children to mirror the inadequacies of her adults. But these features are neither necessarily good in themselves nor Miss Jackson's particular property (though she works very well with them...