Word: turner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days, Hughes actually seemed to seek publicity. The handsome heir to an oil-drilling-equipment fortune, he bought his way into the movie industry, produced Hell's Angels and Scarface, discovered Jean Harlow, personally designed the brassiere that made Jane Russell famous. He was a friend to Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Katharine Hepburn. Then he steadily became more of a loner. He secretly married green-eyed Actress Jean Peters in 1957. Now they live in a French Regency chateau in Bel Air, surrounded by high walls, bodyguards and rumors...
Next day, Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson fired back at Bugas' testimony by reading part of a letter from U.S. Antitrust Chief Donald F. Turner. The Justice Department, said Turner, has indeed been investigating the auto companies-because of their "cooperative efforts to suppress, not to promote, the utilization of auto emission devices." Moreover, said Turner, the antitrust law has not barred agreements among companies "to develop safety devices or to exchange information concerning standards where joint efforts seem necessary and constructive and are not accompanied by unduly restrictive collateral agreements...
Aerial Auroras. Turner scorned the highly varnished, precisely glazed look of a "finished" painting. He wanted his paintings to show virtuoso brushwork (sometimes he even daubed with bread rather than bristles). Before exhibitions opened at the Royal Academy, artists traditionally varnished their canvases in sight of the public. Turner, instead, completed his. Spectators gawked as the academician, in top hat and frock coat, stood on a bench daubing away at his already hung oils. With his color box beside him, he mixed pigments in whatever was handy, even stale beer, to touch up details that would provide some visual reference...
...Turner called clouds "ensanguined sun." Long before the impressionists, he discovered that light is color and let it rule his art, experimented with reflections of light in metal balls. He studied the German poet Goethe's book on color theory, which ascribed brooding, anxious sensations to green, blue and purple as opposed to the liveliness of yellow, red and orange...
...Brown reasons that "to get people to listen to you, you first have to get their attention." He should know. Like other rhythm-and-blues singers, he has been largely unknown in the U.S. outside the Negro community. In Britain, however, Brown and other blues merchants such as Joe Turner, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker are the idols after which the big-beat groups from the Beatles on down have fashioned their music. That the U.S. pop-music market so readily adopted the synthetic British translation of a purely American idiom made Brown see red. To promulgate "the real...