Word: sky
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Department" under Ned Mann. More astounding than the gigantic outdoor sets constructed under Art Director Vincent Korda were Mr. Mann's miniatures: a space gun 20 feet high (see cut) with tiny puppets running around it on moving belts; bat-shaped airplanes apparently capable of carrying armies; a sky-darkening air-force swooping over the Dover Cliffs...
...wind seems to blow in all directions at once, the sky is usually spattered with flights of birds, and people pursue their business or pleasure with bounce and intensity in the paintings of Doris (''Doric") Emrick Lee. Even a sleeper sleeps so soundly that he looks dead, and a woman threading a sewing machine is obviously incapable of fatigue. When young Mrs. Lee's bustling kitchen scene, Thanksgiving, was awarded the Chicago Art Institute's $500 Logan prize last autumn, Mrs. Frank Logan pointed her finger in scorn, called it an "awful thing'' (TIME...
Doris Lee dislikes to hear her painting called "optimistic." "What I feel," she once declared, "is a sort of violence." She says she cannot help putting people in her landscapes or painting a sky red if she feels like it. Born 32 years ago to a merchant-banker in Aledo, Ill., Doris was brought up to be an "outdoorsy" gentlewoman. She went to a swank school in Lake Forest, majored in philosophy at Rockford College, became student art instructor, married a chemical engineer named Russell Werner Lee. In Paris she got pointers from Andr...
...surrealism, Artist Dickinson did a picture of a morose young woman in a red dress seated on a falling, pedestal by a table loaded with books. A Negro in a grey flannel shirt is pulling a heavy tarpaulin over the whole composition while three white roses fall from the sky. The Pale Rider is disappearing into the sunset. Since the whole is painted with the stodgy technique of a bank president's portrait, the effect is as surprising as would be the sight of Herbert Hoover blowing a tenor saxophone...
...explosions called novae are fairly common. About 40 have been detected since 1900. Nova Herculis, which blazed up in 1934, attracted much attention because it was only about 1,500 light-years from Earth (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934). At its peak one of the twelve brightest stars in the sky, it offered superb opportunities for spectroscopic examination. Such novae throw off tremendously hot shells of gas, then subside irregularly and gradually to something like their former faintness. On the other hand some astronomers believe that supernovae, which fade rapidly, become "neutron stars"-small, dead, dense lumps of matter, forlorn wraiths...