Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Readily recognizable art played second fiddle at the Whitney, except for a couple of standout pictures. Jack Levine's Act of Legislature-a dull-looking chap in a toga stabbing a half-naked girl-was a vivid, if highly unpleasant, mixture of lust and righteous rage. At the Sea a Girl was a pompously titled new departure for Henry Koerner, one of the country's most promising young painters. With even more ambiguous symbolism than that which characterized his last exhibition (TIME, Feb. 21), Koerner had painted a girl hauled from the ocean while an uncurious crowd fished...
...people of Oxford, the buildings, and the surrounding woods are all made a vivid part of "Intruder in the Dust." Anyone who has ever lived for any time in a small Southern town should experience a tingle of recognition while watching the film. Mr. Brown's camera gives the best performance in the movie, but it has best material to work with...
...definitive work; the author makes no pretenses to such an object. But it is an interesting job in the man who one day this week will decide whether half a million coal miners have presents for their kids on Christmas. A man with that kind of power deserves a vivid biography, which is just what Mr. Alinsky has given...
...based on Cry, the Beloved Country, the recent best-seller about white-Negro tension in South Africa. The TIME account was of a touring exhibition of South African paintings and sculpture at the National Gallery in Washington. Conspicuous in the show, said TIME'S Editors, were the vivid works of G. Sekoto, the only Negro artist included, who had taught himself to paint in Johannesburg, then left his native land to study in Paris, only to find poverty and despair, to attempt suicide and to be committed to an asylum for the mentally...
Hollywood can claim no credit for the shattering magnificence of the combat scenes in Task Force. But for the sharp-eyed selection, and the patient cutting and pasting which brings history roaring back into vivid, living focus, it can claim a knockout...