Word: watered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...draftsman. His heavy, almost garish, coloring emphasizes how far he has turned from the nice distinctions of tone and shade in eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese prints. This very simple style, more Western than Oriental, mainly produces naive results; the childish, pseudo-folk art atmosphere of Stones in Water and Hawk Woman is most disturbing. However, the best color print, Nirvana, is so excellent that one is sorely tempted to modify one's attack on Munakata's color schemes. Here, in this haunting, mystical picture, color plays a positive and entirely thought-out psychological role...
...Integration: "I think we can have integration as far as politics and human rights go without getting in bed with Negroes. I don't think anybody ever got pregnant by drinking out of the same water fountain...
BRITISH ATOM SUB reactor will be built by Westinghouse, first such reactor to be sent abroad. Westinghouse got contract because no British firms build the pressurized water reactor found best for subs. British firms have been concentrating on large generators for power stations...
...first movie role, impersonates a revolting specimen discovered by Miss Lonelyhearts on a "field trip" among his correspondents. But most of the time the spectator is apt to find himself feeling, as Author West puts it, "like an empty bottle that is slowly being filled with warm, dirty water...
...instead one of the sun philosophers who value the lights that men and artists live by. Light is the sensuous hero of Sight and Insight: "Velásquez' light is like transparent golden bees swarming the honeyed shadow, while Rogier van der Weyden's is like water over marble . . . even when stealing into Vermeer's darkest interior by a narrow window, light is welcomed as a lover. The far corners whisper hello to light. Instead of humping their backs like angry cats the shadows under the furniture are purring. A lady smooths a tablecloth: light smooths...