Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show-off term...
...Fair tripper, taking art on the run, could hardly ask for anything more panoramic. Ranging from tame portraits of young girls to woozy, crawling abstractions, from genteel sculptures in baby-blue plaster to great blocks of stone, from Christmas-cardy woodcuts to elusive black-and-whites, the show represents all trends, tastes, techniques. A few exhibits, with their wavering lines, naïve perspectives, jumbled colors, may invite perplexed comparison with little Hilda's fourth-grade drawings. But there is not enough surrealism to bite beholders. Many things in the exhibition treat in some way of the American scene...
...show gives evidence of enormous energy among U. S. artists. Less evident is their collective importance. Seldom old-fogy, often bold, they are oftener members of a school, children of an era, than unmistakable individuals. Attesting the show's variety are such pictures as Benton's quiet, lonesome Conversation; Doris Lee's whimsical, clever Holiday (see cut); Joe Hirsch's Two Men (see cut) which, using a very broad, low canvas, catches breadthwise the gaunt intensity of two workers; Jack Levine's Rouault-like Night Scene, where the ruddy heads and hands...
...engine cowling which can be used in 500-mile-an-hour airplanes. Cowlings of present design work all right at speeds under 325 m.p.h., but wind-tunnel tests show they cause a "compressibility burble" (violent eddy) above that speed, set up so much resistance that doubling or tripling engine horsepower adds no speed...
Though it was obvious that San Franciscans should be lured to visit their Fair several times, Director Connick arranged few entertainments anyone would care to see twice. He gave Sally Rand an exclusive contract for a nude show, promptly signed contracts for others. When Sally Rand kicked, he sicked police on her, forced her girls to don brassieres. Last week no successor was appointed. Actual runners of the show from now on will probably be two members of the board of management, Philip Patchin (Standard Oil of California) and James Byers Black (Pacific Gas & Electric), whose companies are the Fair...