Word: staining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time was when all an artist needed to express himself was a stain, a stick and a space. But modern technology offers artists a thousand new ways of creating, and artists must concern themselves with means as well as ends. One of the newest mediums is the invention of California's Robert Mallary, 34, whose experiments in color and design are now on view in a Sacramento gallery...
...highlight every eccentricity in the cast. Brando responded to this kind of direction by developing an overgrowth of quirks, brilliantly freakish, that dominate every scene in which he enters. As he appears before fastidious Blanche for the first time, the camera-eye stares fascinated at a huge sweat-stain on his T-shirt, just above the area where he is scratching himself; for half a minute the sweat mark-plays a major role, presenting itself to Blanche's delicate gaze from different angles. Next we see Brando eating a tomato abstractedly while his wife tries to capture his attention, running...
...NATION Stain in the Air Autumn came to the U.S. last week with a souse of wet snow on Denver, a spatter of cold rain on South Dakota's Black Hills, a chill wind in Chicago that moved on to New York. Autumn found the nation prosperous as never before, its people uneasy as seldom before...
...those days as having "the only really secluded location to be obtained near the square . . . quiet and secluded, for Linden Street is used by only a few dozen people a day." The building had a "solid mahogany vestibule . . . marble floors . . . walls sheathed with antique oak . . . stairways lighted by stain glass windows . . . and speaking tubes and electric bells to the janitor...
...toughest problems in biology is how to take a microscope picture of a healthy living cell. Most tissue cells, whether animal or vegetable, are transparent to ordinary light. To make them visible they must be stained, and the stain either kills them or sickens them. They can be seen with special ultraviolet microscopes, but strong ultraviolet is also deadly to cells; only the picture of a tiny corpse appears in the photomicrograph...