Word: sunkenness
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...eyes, seat of all the painter's mental struggles. And all this on a background of chrome yellow with childish little bouquets of wild flowers. A room for a pure young girl . . ." To Vincent van Gogh, to whom nature was everything, it was Gauguin's sunken eyes that spoke. He wrote his brother Theo: "He looks like a prisoner, ill and tormented." Theo struggled to raise Gauguin's fare to Aries...
...reliance on ordinary home appliances into pioneering a sort of householder's pushbutton paradise. Items: 1) beds that spring up and away from walls for easier sheet-tucking, 2) two bars with refrigerated drawers for glassware, perpetually cold ice buckets, automatic bottle-delivery tubes, 3) a tennis court sunken completely below the annoying swath of desert winds, 4) a swimming pool with surrounding tiles refrigerated to prevent hot feet, and at poolside a "spit" that will rotate sunbathers too lazy to turn themselves for an even...
...Manila Bay last week, a motor launch carrying Philippine Vice President Carlos P. Garcia and Japanese Representative Toshio Urabe chugged out to the sunken hulk of the Japanese freighter Seiwa Maru, one of the rusty eyesores that litter Manila's harbor and menace navigation. Urabe solemnly scattered flowers on the glistening waters in memory of the Japanese soldiers and sailors who went down with their ships, under some of the most destructive bombing by the U.S. Navy in World War II. Then a representative of seven Japanese salvage companies poured out an urnful of sake as an offering...
...perhaps even logic. In one of his greatest poems, The Idea of Order at Key West, he wrote : If it was only the dark voice of the sea That rose, or even colored by many -waves ; If it was only the outer voice of sky And cloud, of the sunken coral water-walled, However clear, it would have been deep air, The heaving speech of air, a summer sound Repeated in a summer without end And sound alone. But it was more than that, More even than her voice, and ours, among The meaningless plungings of water and the wind...
...jungle to get above the trees and came back with 4,000 negatives. (LIFE used 29.) ¶ Photographer Margaret Bourke-White dangled from a cable dropped from a helicopter for aerial views of the U.S. ¶ In a Florida lagoon. Photographer Hank Walker mounted a camera on a sunken ship, connected it to shore by 4,000 ft. of cable so that he could shoot a jet plane coming head-on to a target with its rockets blazing. A direct hit smashed the camera, but left the film magazine intact. ¶ Photographer Michael Rougier, shooting pictures of Communist...