Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nominate its candidate for President, the U.S. political grassroots are in for a real combing. Last week, in a symbolic scene, Presidential Hopeful Averell Harriman and Presidential Hopeful Adlai Stevenson met at Stevenson's Libertyville (Ill.) farm, sat on white wicker chairs and gazed around at the smooth lawns. In a tone that meant he was merely being polite, Ave murmured: "Your grass is greener than mine." Adlai said nothing; he just chuckled...
...Antoine Pevsner (now in Paris), who in 1920 revolted against cubism: "Depth alone can express space. We reject mass as an element of sculpture . . ." By approaching the problem like engineers, Gabo and Pevsner (see color page opposite) turned out metal objects that have the smooth, polished beauty-and the coldness-of a mathematical equation...
...line, then waved a signal. A band played the national anthem and enemies rushed forward to embrace enemies. "Viva San Simón," shouted the people of El Guarda. "Viva El Guarda," responded the people of San Simón, and they hugged and kissed, and trampled smooth the earth where the furrow had been...
...where the Canadian Pacific railroad and the Trans-Canada Highway skirt the jack pine forest, blue smoke from smoldering brush fires hangs lazily in the hot, still air. In a raw new clearing the bright steel of a mine headframe cuts an angular pattern against the sky. From the smooth blacktop highway trucks laden with lumber and machinery waddle off toward mine sites deep in the bush. A scattered army of engineers, diamond drillers, airplane pilots, and hardrock miners is turning 900 square miles of lake-pocked wilderness into a billion-dollar empire: the Blind River uranium development...
Actor Ryan is smooth and businesslike, and Stack is competent. Next to the view, though, the biggest delight is Japan's picture-book beauty Shirley Yamaguchi, who plays Stack's "kimono" (i.e., moll); she has all the fluid rhythm of a ripple in a pond...