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...past 20 years painting red-striped nudes in a downtown studio, remembers pre-Prohibition Manhattan as being "sweet . . . sweet and sad," and that was how he painted it. For him the canyon-like streets flowed with pretty girls and hurrying men-a warm swirl of humanity that his quick brush (trained for newspaper illustration in the days before news photography), caught in full flood. At night he painted Manhattan's vast, far sparkle, and did it tenderly enough to make onlookers sense the million lives behind the million lights...
...they had predicted and promised, Republicans gave Harry Truman's massive special session program a quick brush-off. To the surprise of no one, they refused to consider price control or rationing as inflation remedies, gleefully repeated the President's observation of ten months ago that "these are marks of a police state." Their answer to a request for an excess profits tax was a brusque no. Despite Candidate Tom Dewey's personal intervention, they refused to liberalize the provisions of the Displaced Persons bill. The one unarguable gain of the week was approval...
...sport have overlooked its obvious, uncomplicated charms. It is fast, hotly competitive, requires skill and nerve and, like most crowd-pleasing American pastimes, involves lots of noise. When half a dozen cars whine down the straightaway inches apart and fling into a screeching slide around a curve, the drivers brush lightly against the wings of death. But as in a tight-rope act, danger is the attraction, not death...
...Clemente Orozco had labored five months on his new mural-and never laid a brush on it. The owlish Mexican master spent his evenings hunched in a kitchen chair in his studio, under a single powerful lamp, drawing pictures. Mornings he would go out to the brand-new government normal school to work, by remote control, on the painting itself...
...left armpit, then pumping his left arm against it] which were somewhat dubious but very rhythmic ... At home I set myself with zeal to imitate this music-so often and so successfully that I was forbidden to indulge in such an indecent accompaniment." That was Stravinsky's first brush with rhythm...