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Good drawing has declined tremendously in recent years, because if anyone draws well he is attacked as being sentimental or anecdotal. The result is that many teachers cannot draw well and neither can their pupils. Therefore they are doomed to create what I call geometrical or biological abstractions-Scotch plaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Negative Realist | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

Averaging about the size of a card table, they were in high, far, pleasant places on the undersides of overhanging rocks. They resemble Stone Age art found in eastern Spain, the Tassili mountains of North Africa, in India and Indonesia. They depict tall, slender, square-shouldered people quite unlike the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: FROM THE STONE AGE | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Yet for all the pratfalls, it was still Hollywood, pure Hollywood, more enduring than brass. Onto U.S. TV screens flashed a high-style gloss of lovely women and handsome men. bright-eyed before the topmost awards: the "Oscars" that signify which of them, in the opinion of their peers, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: That Honor, That Cash | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

The Defiant Ones. The chain that links two escaped convicts, a white man (Tony Curtis) and a black (Sidney Poitier), comes to signify, as Stanley Kramer's melodrama rises to its climax and its moral, the tie that binds all men to one another (TIME, Aug. 25).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHOICE FOR 1958: American | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

In welcoming the Communists, the handsome naval officer, hero of the revolt that toppled Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, has entered into a formal alliance no Latin politico has tried since the days of Guatemala's hapless Jacobo Arbenz. In taking Red help, Larrazábal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: The Admiral & the Reds | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

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