Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best pictures. Finally, Picasso spied a little piece of paper on a bedside table. On it, Matisse had scrawled the outline of an apple. Matisse protested that it was just a rough sketch, and unfinished. Nothing else would do, Picasso insisted, and took it off to his studio. There he pinned it conspicuously to the wall. Whenever anyone asks what the drawing is, Picasso says: "Oh, that's what Matisse is doing these days...
...canvas of Belshazzar's Feast. Tart-tongued Gilbert Stuart promptly advised him to change the whole perspective. Allston tried. But he never got the picture right. For 25 years, while admiring Harvard students sat at his feet, while Boston's great dropped in at his romantically dusty studio for chats that continued long past midnight, Allston struggled with Belshazzar's Feast. He painted minor works, but kept returning to Belshazzar. Six hours before his death in 1843, he was still at work at it, and getting nowhere...
Every Sunday before broadcast time (3 p.m. E.D.T., ABC), to "warm up" the studio audience, Lassie yips, yowls, quivers, limps, rolls over and generally works himself into a lather (which Weatherwax wipes off with a clean handkerchief). Then he bounds onto a table, squats with his snout a professional six inches from the mike. "On-the-air" is signaled, Lassie barks, the show...
...spring, "I have been plugging a young singer named Doris Day, who, I believed, had fine talent. . . . Mike Curtiz tested her for the lead in Romance in High C. She'd never been before a camera previously, but Mike told me her test was sensational. Even so, the studio wanted a star name-Mary Martin, Lauren Bacall, or Ginny Simms-for the role, but Mike held out for Doris...
...finish his engineering studies. In his room, they found over 200 pages of handwritten notes and documents on atomic processes, other data in the family safe in his home in Mount Lebanon, Pa. Wallis was run down in Chicago late in May. Carelessly thrown in a drawer in his studio were over 200 photographs and negatives pertaining to atomic bomb tests and machinery...