Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throne room at Columbia Pictures resounded with the whoosh of an outsized riding crop swung in anger. Scepter in hand, striding before two rows of Oscars at stiff attention behind his vast desk, Columbia's stubby and balding Boss Harry Cohn fumed with the king-sized wrath of the last Hollywood despot who still runs the studio he built. The year was 1953, the object of his wrath Rita Hayworth, Columbia's reigning love goddess; Rita had flounced out and left the studio with a costly stack of properties bought just for her. Before Cohn's desk...
...More to Say." He began painting spheres of all sizes, combinations and complexity, weaving them inside each other and coloring them simply and brightly. During World War I, Portuguese police who saw him painting enormous disks on vast expanses of canvas at his seaside villa near Lisbon suspected him of drawing signals for German submarines. They found as many a gallerygoer has, that Delaunay's circles were meaningless. Delaunay's output was small: he painted only about 400 oils. When pressed to paint more pictures, he used to protest, "I can only paint when I have something...
...once. Enormous technological breakthroughs in almost geometrical progression force businessmen everywhere to search for capital to buy new equipment and materials. And with more jobs and higher pay than ever before, the effective demand of consumers with money to spend and the will to spend it has created vast new markets. In their rush to produce and buy, businessmen and consumers have pushed many a nation into serious inflation (see FOREIGN NEWS), with prices for men, materials and goods all skyrocketing. As industry hikes wages higher and higher, productivity lags behind costs. At the same time, it costs more than...
...rich Iran, long regarding foreign interest in its black wealth with suspicion, last week put out the welcome mat and declared open house for all comers. After two days of debate, the Majlis (the lower house of Parliament) passed a new law that opens up vast new areas of Iran for oil exploration and development under surprisingly favorable terms for foreign investors...
...Irving Penn took "a staggering photograph" that left France's greatest authoress "exposed before posterity" (see cut). As if really seeing her for the first time, Colette's husband, Maurice Goudeket, marveled at what lay beneath the leafage-"a huge, domed forehead, like Beethoven's . . . bare, vast, significant, the forehead of a genius...