Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copies are easily discernible since the work is thin, hard, and precise in contrast to the luxuriance of the original. If the picture is damaged in any way, these faults will be revealed by the shadowgraph. Another process, that of ultra-violet light, makes the pigments of different ages fluoresce differently and thus the age of the work and retouching can be detected...
...that her parents will be estranged and reconciled. Although Evelyn Prentice is far from being an experiment, in either art or advertising, its conventional coils are expertly twisted and untwisted. For the most likable starring team now functioning in Hollywood, it makes an agreeable, if undistinguished, sequel to The Thin Man. Good shot: John Prentice helping his butler mix the cocktails...
...adipose individuals with twin bellies swagger before a packed Young's Hotel auditorium of Curley supporters. On the stage with them, twenty other persons, some fat, some thin, none with bellies to compare with the two leaders of the gathering, rock and away to the strains of "Mother Machree." A tear glistens on the check of the adipose one on the left. Unashamed he wipes it away. The band ceases its dripping strains...
This is a thin, tin-panny imitation of French 'machine age' art by a young American who tried hard to be in the latest fashion but didn't succeed...
...subjective soliloquies may seem impertinently irrelevant to the price of eggs. His unconcern with plot is enough to drive contrivers of well-made stories mad with resentment. All Author Saroyan tries to tell about is "the truth of my presence on earth." In his own person or in thin disguise he writes about barber shops, bawdy houses, cold rooms in Manhattan or San Francisco, pawning his typewriter, finding a little brown snake in a park, being kept after school because he had laughed at the teacher, a bum who was still too dignified to sell dirty postcards. At times...