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Word: studioful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clemente Orozco had labored five months on his new mural-and never laid a brush on it. The owlish Mexican master spent his evenings hunched in a kitchen chair in his studio, under a single powerful lamp, drawing pictures. Mornings he would go out to the brand-new government normal school to work, by remote control, on the painting itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Into the Blue | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Another time a Hollywood studio offered Stravinsky $100,000 for three musical scores a year. Replied Stravinsky: "To turn out one worthwhile piece of music in a year is enough. To guarantee three is to make a deceit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Master Mechanic | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Because he is bored with his own, he calls himself by many names: "The Old Man of the Apricot Orchard," "Hut on Chieh Shan Mountain," "The Man Long Separated from the Studio of Eight Ink Stones." But in China last week any of those names, signed with slender strokes upon a painting, were immediately recognizable as belonging to Ch'ih Pai-shih, China's most popular living artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paintings by the Foot | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...sidelines: Giro lipsticks, cigarette lighters, ashtrays, glassware. He makes his own ice cubes, carbonates his own water, and runs annual concerts-starring Xavier Cugat-in the Hollywood Bowl. Even juicier dividends come from the off-premises liquor sales and a catering service which runs many of the major studio parties. "I have found," Hover says, "that people will buy anything with the name Giro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Herman's Place | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

Hollywood had known something of the meteoric Howard Hughes story for two decades. He had always been an independent-a lone wolf, unpredictable and exasperatingly successful most of the time. Now he had stepped into control of a top studio. After trying (characteristically) to get the stock for two points less than the market, he had paid Atlas Corp.'s Floyd B. Odium a whacking $8,825,690 for 929,020 shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Mechanical Man | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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