Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Davis emphasized his contention that explosives were basically benevolent by setting a great many of them off on the back of his hand before his expectant audience. The lecture which was punctuated by frequent, malodorous puffs of vari-colored smoke, was concerned with a short sketch of the various types of explosives, and their uses and development...
...Riviera (near Hollywood) home has a special niche over the mantel. It is the shrine where Tom Mitchell hangs his latest purchases. In it have hung successively a Rouault Christ, a Whistler view of the Thames, a Modigliani woman with red hair, an Utrillo landscape, an oil sketch of a screaming woman from Picasso's Guernica. Last week it was the Picasso's turn to move out. Tom Mitchell had a Rembrandt...
When anti-New Dealers curse long-haired, radical theorists, they are unwittingly giving a three-word sketch of Jerome Frank. Too busy to think of haircuts, he often lets his greying mane hide his ears. Subtle, learned, mentally insatiable, he combs arcane source books for cosmic ideas, wholesales them in brilliant conversation to friends. At Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy the partners used to say: "It's worth $50,000 a year to us to have Jerry around just to hear him talk." In 1938, in a speech in Kansas City, he denounced fixed charges in favor of equity dividends...
EUROPE TO LET - Storm Jameson -Macmillan ($2.50). Europe to Let consists of four stories of that continent between-the-wars. Told, with bitter anger, by a fictional British writer named Mr. Esk, their essential subject is despair, fear, moral bankruptcy. They sketch the genesis of Naziism, death of Vienna, betrayal of Czecho-Slovakia, premonitions in Hungary...
...technique has added one new effect to Pinocchio that Snow White did not have-terror. The peeping eyes in the night scenes in Snow White were scary, the beautifully drawn buzzards (of which Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art now owns one sketch) were ghoulish. But in Pinocchio the plunging, charging whale, Monstro, is terrifying...