Word: terrain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treatment of Stromboli (TIME, Feb. 27, 1950), Volcano is a far better film.* Against the island's rough backdrop, the yarn's primitive passions do not seem particularly excessive or out of place. Director William (Salome) Dieterle has made good use of Vulcano's sun-baked terrain, rocky mountainsides, bleak and barren vistas. Blending a documentary style with the blood & thunder, he has turned out some notable scenes: a raw, vivid tuna-fishing sequence, a scene of island women toiling in the cruel pumice mines, a colorful festival procession on nearby Lipari...
...three dials. Then, by means of other simple controls, he transfers the readings of the hands to a pointer that touches a special chart. Thereafter he need do nothing. The chart and pointer move automatically. By looking at the pointer, he can tell exactly where he is above the terrain represented by the chart. The pointer also traces a line telling where he has been...
...matters," says Painter William Robinson Leigh, "it is what you paint." Tall, lean and full of such old-fashioned convictions, Artist Leigh, at 86, knows just what he likes to paint. Says he: "Never in the whole of human history at any time or anywhere has there been a terrain more suitable for the making of pictures and telling of stories than our own West." On display this week in a Manhattan gallery is a retrospective show of Leigh's Wild West pictures, which prove him a first-rate practitioner of the Western school made famous by his late...
...Nasan there were 12,000 French Union soldiers, Algerians, Moroccans, Goums, Senegalese, Foreign Legionnaires, Vietnamese and Thais. They were surrounded by three divisions of Viet Minh regulars (approximately 25,000 men) armed with bazookas, recoilless rifles, grenades and wire-busting Bangalore torpedoes. The terrain was high and wide open. The French had dug in, they had laid barbed wire and minefields, they had prepared their artillery to meet concerted infantry attack. Every ten minutes a plane came in from Hanoi with more ammunition, more barbed wire, land mines, 105-mm. guns, bread, brandy and wine. A few minutes later...
...Angeles' Lee Mullican, 32, is a lanky (6 ft. 4 in.), transplanted Oklahoman with prematurely grey hair and a bird's-eye approach to art. His bright abstractions have a rarefied upper-air look, almost as if they were terrain studies done from 30,000 ft. There is good reason for this. Lee Mullican discovered his personal art style as a member of a topographical battalion in World War II- drawing operations maps from aerial photographs...