Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Water color is one medium at which Englishmen have generally excelled; Nash's handling of it was traditionally deft and cool. He turned his back on the cities and factories, and painted in the serenity of his own garden and his grey-carpeted studio. Almost no human figures marred the privacy of the world he painted. Aside from his technique, and a faintly romantic air, there was nothing traditional about that world; Nash's water colors and oils alike were halfway abstract. "Nature we need not deny," he once explained, "but art ... should control...
...Toscanini, having sweated through his first telecast (TIME, March 29), decided to call off the second one. It was too hot under those lights, he complained. Howls of dismay from disappointed televiewers (and NBC's promise to turn up the studio cooling system) changed the old maestro's mind. At concert time, he appeared with no vest, breezed through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony for a fitting finish to his tenth season with...
Muses Irene: "L.B. thought that a woman's place was in the home. I almost never got out except with the family." When she was 19, she got out long enough to meet a bright young studio executive named Dave Selznick at a New Year's party. Three years later they were married...
...network member, speaking unofficially, opined that the theft could conceivably have been pulled by some one on the inside. WHRV officials rushed to deny this, pointing out that anyone familiar with the studio would have known that nothing valuable was kept in the room which the thief broke into...
...during 1948, moviemen gloomily predicted, studio earnings would plunge to about $60,000,000; Warner's first-quarter 1948 profits were down 40% from last year's, Columbia...