Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmers." But it was not what Symington said that impressed the citizens of Abbeville. What impressed them was Stuart Symington himself. Standing straight and tall on the platform, a frown of earnestness stamped on his strong-jawed, ruggedly handsome face, the lingering trace of boyishness nicely balanced by the thick silver streaks in his hair, he looked every inch a potential President. Anybody conditioned by the movies could plainly see that here was one of the Good Guys, brimful of courage and determination to put the Bad Guys to rout...
...metal pins and skin grafts from his abdomen, has slowly knitted together during the past four months. He still has no feeling or movement in the limb. Not for another few months will the surgeons undertake thg. tricky task of reopening the leg to sew together the finger-thick sheath of the sciatic (spinal) nerve. They are going on surgeons' experience that nerves mend better when they are connected several months after an accident, figure that Smith will start walking again-although with a severe limp-within a year...
...whole gentler generation of San Francisco figure painters, most conspicuous of whom is Richard Diebenkorn (TIME color, March 17, 1958). Park, 48, who sold 14 canvases at prices from $500 to $2,000 in a one-man show at Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery last month, still keeps the thick colors, fat brush strokes and overall concern with surface that marks the abstract expressionists, but he frankly welcomes figures back into art. "Before," he confesses, "I felt like a critic while I was painting, not a painter. Besides, I like bodies...
...Square, a riot was almost touched off by news-hungry students who bought out the supplementary supply in record time. A crowd in South Station tore the New York papers off the stands before they could be properly assembled, often leaving with only half of the thick Sunday edition. The entire supply was sold in ten minutes...
Needless to say, the pathos is, in this production, an awkward intrusion. Contrasting strangely with the thick boffola of the comic scenes, it produces a sense of dislocation, a sort of emotional lacuna. Not that there is anything wrong with emotional lacunae: such an effect was doubtless what the producers of the original film were after. But the dislocation in the present version acts to no purpose and fails to convey the desired jarring effect...