Word: stunts
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Because Picasso's vision was predominantly sculptural, his new rules had mostly to do with form. He thought it might be interesting to break up the forms in nature and rearrange them on canvas-cubism. Matisse was most excited by colors; he did roughly the same kaleidoscope stunt with them-and took art back to the days of the Byzantines and medieval monks, whose flat, glowing illuminations symbolized instead of trying to counterfeit reality...
...steel industry does not yet realize.. . . that its decisions on prices must be in the public interest as well as its private interest." A top Republican policymaker in Congress, who had been neck-deep in the fight to take and keep controls off business, cried: "A cynical stunt ... a damned fool thing to do." Senator Robert A. Taft swiftly announced that "two or three typical steel leaders " would be called on the carpet of Congress' Joint Economic Committee this week to explain their action...
...While his wife and a motion-picture cameraman watched, Hollywood Stunt Man Alfred ("Dusty") Rhodes jumped off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge with three small parachutes attached to his back. He plummeted down 256 feet, disappeared in a burst of foam, surfaced, and bobbed quietly off on the tide-dead...
...Army and Military Government, Koerner had painted ruins and ruined people. Now, back in Brooklyn, he concerned himself with a less apparent wasteland. Among the best of Koerner's new pictures was Subway, a familiar scene made into a nightmare of sharp realism. Koerner used one anti-realistic stunt: he vastly enlarged the head of the desperate man in the rear of the car (see cut). "That man wants to get out," Koerner says. "People would think he was crazy. But what about the woman across the aisle, who needs to be looked at and yet hates...
...Gilded Hearse is the story of one day in the life of Publicity Man Eliot. It happens to be the day in 1938 that the Munich Pact was signed, but the stunt of employing momentous events as a backdrop for Eliot's neurotic strivings for cheap success never comes off. To bring it off requires more than making a character tune in on the depressing broadcasts of that day every few pages and glibly crediting the hero with a "premonition of shapeless disaster...