Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last week the bright face of the sun showed even brighter spots, each of them a gigantic explosion tossing gas and magnetism deep into space. Blasts of charged particles crossed millions of miles of space and smashed into the earth's magnetic field. In each case there was no warning of the approaching storm; it hit the earth with a sharp initial pulse, lasting about a minute and followed by violent fluctuations...
...paint splatters. There is no trace of his earlier furiously hacked and lacerated images of women. In his present works De Kooning, without relenting in either slash or splash, has clearly moved toward landscape. The raw tones that De Kooning himself called "circus colors" are now fresher and brighter; images swim closer and more sturdily to the surface...
...Hollywood has an angle. "Conditions in the movie industry," says redoubtable Independent Producer Sam Goldwyn, "are worse than I have ever known them in the 47 years I have been connected with motion pictures." Says Paramount Pictures Chairman Adolph Zukor: "The future of motion pictures has never been brighter." Last week Hollywood could split the difference, find plenty of signs that the movie industry, for all its problems, is healthier than it has been in many a postwar year...
...accounts-long a news staple of both Charlotte papers-revived the Observer's bureau in Raleigh, the state capital, and added staffers in three Carolina cities. The Observer's gloomy makeup vanished in a wash of white space, new type, and pictures boldly played; its brighter columns carried livelier, shorter stories. Inevitably the Observer, historically dominant, stole further circulation and advertising marches on the News. By last year News Publisher Thomas Lambard Robinson, watching his paper slip below the break-even point, put it on the block, as a last resort offered it to Jim Knight...
...brilliant re-creator of Mark Twain as a septuagenarian platform lecturer is 34-year-old Hal Holbrook making his New York stage debut. An avid Twain buff since college days, TV Actor (Grayling Dennis on the CBS serial The Brighter Day, for six years) Holbrook has expertly culled Twain's speeches, autobiography and stories for his program. What emerges is no mellow dodderer, but a caustic sage brimming with skeptic laughter...