Word: subways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany with the U.S. 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...
...made Koerner the find of the year. There were less successful paintings in his show, some nasty in color, some confused in content. Except for one oil, The Beach, Koerner had excluded nature almost entirely. "I'm a city man," says Koerner. "I really love to ride the subway. To me it's like going to the theater...
...curiosity that are often watermarks of the great essayists. Shifting to the New York Evening Post as editorial writer and columnist, Strunsky became editor of its editorial page by 1920. When Cyrus H. K. Curtis bought the paper and started telegraphing editorials 'from Philadelphia, Strunsky "stepped into the subway one day and came on uptown" to the Times...
Greece's Prince Peter, 39-year-old anthropologist (and cousin of King Paul), was still in good shape after sampling the native customs of Manhattan. In the U.S. for a lecture tour, the Prince and his pretty Princess Irene submitted themselves to a subway ride and hot dogs at a Times Square stand-up counter. They then returned to the Ritz-Carlton...
...Manhattan, a 48-inch water main broke during the morning rush hour, flooded blocks of the I.R.T. subway, trapped 9,000 passengers on 14 underground trains and tied up service for five hours. A black market in fuel oil developed overnight and was heartily damned and heartily patronized. Icicles formed on the cornices of skyscrapers, dropped off and came tumbling down while pedestrians leaped like rabbits...