Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who see little connection between his Benediction and its title, Lipchitz simply recalls the day on the road south from Paris when he made his first sketch of the harpist: "I was very mad, very anxious. This [sculpture] was a little song for Paris what I had to sing. It is like somebody goes to sleep. But sleep would bring cauchemar [nightmare], so I sing him a song that everything will come out all right. Maybe it is something that will make me feel better...
...amount of cutting short of a total ban can rob "Scarlet Street" of its oppressive naturalism, of its rough sketch or unpleasant characters, illicit love, and miscarried justice. That the Johnston office passed it in the first place is gratifying, for it flies in the face of the precepts of movie morality set up by Will Hays...
...like Blizzard (which he describes as "the sort of storm that might have descended on that mythical village of the old fairy tale The Snow Queen") by tramping Gardenville's streets on last winter's worst days, when it was too cold to stop anywhere long and sketch. He sees in it, above the houses, "the ghostly spirit of the wind and snow, about to engulf the village, and beyond that is a dark, sinister shape fashioned out of the moving void...
...oils are less convenient for Litwak: his landlady in Brooklyn hates the smell of turpentine, and refuses to let him paint with the windows shut. Litwak's solution is simply to sketch his compositions on canvas in the winter, and color them in when summer comes and the windows can be left open...
Thomas Mann faced the happy embarrassment of being wrong in a prediction he had made in 1930. The prediction (in A Sketch of My Life): "I have a feeling that I shall die at the same age as my mother [70], in 1945." At his Pacific Palisades home near Los Angeles, Author Mann looked fit despite a slight head cold, smoked his usual two cigars a day (with a liqueur on the side), smoked cigarets the rest of the time, walked his daily two miles "against the sea breeze," and was 500 pages along on a new novel which...