Word: squatly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Today squat, whimsical Portinari is beginning to be rated as Brazil's, and probably South America's, No. i Painter. Already Detroit's up-&-coming Institute of Arts and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art have arranged one-man shows of 130-odd Portinari canvases (for typical examples, see cuts p. 37). Recently Brazilians have let him paint frescoes for Rio's Department of Education Building and panels for Brazil's pavilion at the New York World's Fair. But Rio de Janeiro's salons still deplore his Negro subjects, prefer...
What is more, said the Japanese, the gendarmes were slapped when they talked or spat from their bleeding mouths. And they were "forced to squat." "They got," said Colonel Peck drily, "the same consideration and treatment as any man we arrest-including a medical examination...
...Instead of a palace for their studio, they have a roomy, north-lighted barn which last year was Gull Hill School's stable, next year will be its gymnasium. Instead of Paris they have Provincetown. Artist Despujols looks at Cape Cod's scrub pines, sand dunes and squat frame houses with a cheerful eye. Says he: "It is not the Isle de France but it is equally paintable...
...Louis, most fight fans were less surprised than disgusted by the challenger's tactics of crawling around out of harm's way. Last week, in New York City's Yankee Stadium, Joe Louis faced the Chilean again in what Broadway wags called the "Second Battle of Squat...
Most of Osservatore Romano's war news had been printed in a column called Acta Diurna, in which squat, dark, astute Professor Guido Gonella, with a strong pro-Ally slant, digested daily communiques from London, Paris, Berlin. Editor Dalla Torre dropped Professor Gonella's column. Without Acta Diurna, Osservatore Romano came out as usual for subscribers, but the last free paper in Italy had been bottled up, almost as good as suppressed...