Word: deepful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...landscapes and murals but portraits. The gallery of John's sitters is a contemporary gallery of Britain's great ones: from Thomas Hardy to Winston Churchill and Queen Elizabeth. (It also includes some rich Americans and some spectacular unknowns, such as a haughty-looking farmer and a deep-eyed Jamaica girl named Aminta...
...home-town news: "New York City was favored last night with a sunset that rivaled those of the tropics in its splendor . . . Pedestrians in midtown cross streets stopped to watch and remark to each other on its beauty. There were not only cloud strata tinted from brilliant orange to deep mauve, but there were streaks of vivid blue sky and a vertical path of vivid color that resembled the reddish-white color of an open-hearth steel furnace...
Deepest. The Pure Oil Co., which has been drilling an oil well in Wyoming's Wind River Valley, brought in a producing well at 14,309 ft., a record depth. (Previous record for a producing well: a 14,000-ft.-deep well in Grady County, Okla.) In a 41-hour test, the well flowed 1,413 barrels. The news sent Pure Oil's stock up 4½ points to 40 in one day on the New York Stock Exchange...
Most of the ships go to Bagotville. A few passengers will see the sturdy French-Canadian workmen on the docks of Port Alfred, sweating in the sun, Virgin's medals on their hairy chests. A few will get to the end of the deep water and to Chicoutimi, now a cathedral city of 30,000, with cinemas, an airline office, soda counters and neon signs. But few will get more than a glimpse of the twinkling lights of Arvida, seven miles away...
...seldom have to speak and never waste a word; he has gone farther than most moviemakers towards solving the difficult problems of silent cinema in a talk-ridden era. Some of his close-ups are extraordinarily long, but they are brimming with substance: the subtle, beautifully acted modulations of deep moral anguish...