Word: strays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piece itself is like a translation that inserts innumerable adjectives while omitting all the verbs; it substitutes atmosphere for action, and theatrical color for dramatic force. The stage set-a cross-section of Raskolnikov's swarming rooming house-is a fine device for squeezing in a lot of stray incident, but it virtually squeezes out Raskolnikov. Thick with debris that chokes the main story, full of garish gloom that feasts the eye but starves the emotions, Crime and Punishment winds up a bore...
...that." Visitors to Evans' retrospective exhibition at Chicago's Art Institute last week were sure to see his point. Evans' own undeniably artful photographs seemed worlds apart from the museum's paintings. They were almost head-on views of junkyards, stray people, tenements, hill farms and city streets, done with an antiseptic brilliance of black, white and grey. Chill as glass, they had no more charm than a newsreel, but the quiet clarity of each print gave their commonplace subject matter the impact and beauty of things seen for the first time...
...February morning in 1896, readers of the New York Sunday World found something new in the feature section. It was a three-quarter-page colored panel titled The Great Dog Show in M'Googan's Avenue, and peopled with alley cats, stray hounds and slum bums in high-society clothes. Strutting in its center was a child in a bright yellow nightgown, whose slightly oriental face was sharp with precocious malice. The nasty creature was named The Yellow Kid, and his guttersnipe antics were soon on every New Yorker's tongue. It was the first successful comic...
Sample. On the Hwai River, China, stray gunfire just missed UNRRA Official Carrol Deyoe, riddled the book he was reading: Thunder Out of China...
Offenses of both teams stalled in the slippery mud of the playing field, and only when Leverett took to the the air to drive for the only touchdown did the game stray from a stand-off midfield struggle...