Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first prize went to thin-faced Zoltan Sepeshy, who at 49 is one of the world's best tempera technicians. His realistic landscapes, figure paintings and still lifes incline to be dull in color, but they have space, weight and solidity. And Sepeshy can reproduce the texture of almost anything in nature-from the barnacles on a beached boat to the faint down on a woman's neck. Says he: "I love the fine, eye-burning work involved. . . A friend tells me that my work is immaculate in everything but conception...
...people, to Dr. Bruch (5 ft. 8 in., 145 lbs.), are not the placid and jolly folks they are generally reputed. Their good humor, she thinks, is a pose-a thin veneer over a greedy, irritable personality that will not brook any denial of its wants...
Over the English Channel near Lands End, a Mosquito light bomber climbed to 36,400 feet. Lanky "boffin" (scientific expert) Gerald Bernard Lockee Bayne of the Ministry of Supply touched the bomb-release button, and "Vicky," the Ministry's bomb-airplane-rocket, plunged down through the thin, cold...
...find snow in my pictures unless there's a good reason for it." Schary believes that any good plot can be told in a telegram, likes unusual ones. Says he: "I am not interested in the blue serge of the picture business [tried, true, and worn thin]. The material is the star...
...Critic Trilling, author of neat books about Forster and Matthew Arnold, is not yet a finished novelist. He mishandles the Dostoevskian character of Maxim. A good deal of the book frays out in thin, earnest psychologizing, a weakness which Trilling's clear grey style has not enough impetus to overcome...