Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pink-haired Van Johnson was up & around again five days after an attack of gastroenteritis sent him to a Hollywood hospital...
...Published by Burke & Van Heusen, Inc., by arrangement with Crestview Music Corp. Copyright...
...movie (like the novel) propounds the obvious: that when a poor man (Van Heflin) marries a rich girl (Barbara Stanwyck) her money is a problem. The passages satirizing Wall Street and the New Deal are so plainly extraneous and contrived that even the actors seem embarrassed. In the end, Right & Left are reconciled in one mighty smooch in a darkened Washington apartment...
Toward the end, before he killed himself, Van Gogh considered his painting a kind of therapy. Writing from an insane asylum to his brother Theo, he said: "I am struggling with all my energy to master my work . . . if I win that will be the best lightning conductor for my illness." That illness was possibly epilepsy, but it has also been defined as manic depression. Today, it might have been given electric shock treatment. As gallerygoers could see, Van Gogh's self-prescribed therapy was also a "shock treatment...
...electric force in Van Gogh's art was sheer color. Describing his famed Night Café-in which a green billiard table squats like a beast under the bright yellow lights of a red room-he could say without the least self-consciousness: "I have tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green." When he was very ill, he sent his brother a self-portrait head which seems to burn like an electric bulb, with nerves for filaments. "You must look at it for some time," he wrote. "You will see, I hope...