Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stocky, intense French citizen, Jacques Lipchitz has been turning out weird, passionate work for 33 years. He is one of the world's most highly praised and least understood sculptors. He made the sketches for Benediction along the road from fallen Paris, in the midst of a wild, tragic rout. His idea was to make a statue of the harpist when & if he succeeded in reaching...
...improving the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for Pope Julius II, a handful of Papuans were equally hard at work in a New Guinea clubhouse. They fashioned masks 10 feet high out of bark. Each mask represented a mythological spirit, but no Renaissance classicist could have recognized the 100 weird, bearded birds and sharp toothed half-humans who emerged, after ten years of labor, from the clubhouse. And Europeans, who like to think of art as immortal, would have been amazed to see the masks burned (after a month of ceremonial dances) amid the acclamations of the populace. The Papuans...
...barely lifted the lid of a Pandora's box, gave the public a quick look at the horrors within and then slammed the lid down. The glimpse was enough to show how the Army's little-known Chemical Warfare Service, without firing a shot, had won its weird...
...Yutang had finally realized his ambition and dream-a "practical" Chinese typewriter. Soon to be marketed was his long-gestated brainchild, a 64-key affair with "a theoretical total of 90,000 characters,† including . . . many new, weird combinations." Declared best-selling Lin happily: the machine was "adequate for all commercial and literary purposes...
...plane to replace the DC-3: a two-motored, 270-m.p.h. Martin 202. Last week, he sold Eastern Air Lines 50 Martin 2025, the second big postwar contract for Martin. (He sold 35 planes fortnight ago to Pennsylvania Central Airlines.) Martin looks down his nose at Douglas' weird new plane. But there is one catch to his own fat contracts. His 202 is still on the drawing board, will not be ready for delivery until...