Word: doughnuts
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...body and the classical tradition. The greater number used it as a substitute for knowledge. Many of those in last week's show were like men who, having never learned to sing, just shout. There were others who seemed not to belong in the exhibition at all. The doughnut-soft abstractions of Jean Arp, the polished simplifications of Constantin Brancusi, the striding stick-figures of Alberto Giacometti and Henry Moore's pierced fantasies would probably have baffled Rodin as much as they do most gallerygoers...
...Georges Rouault's Nude had been done with just a few swirls of a heavily loaded ink brush. Her head was heavy and rough as rock, her breasts were like sheep's eyes, her puny thighs terminated in doughnut knees. But the picture's very crudeness gave it drama. Backed into a dark corner, the body was startlingly white. At first glance the brush work might seem clumsy as a calligraph drawn in a Chinese kindergarten, but it made space of the flat paper, and crammed it with fat, interlocked sausages of light...
...Victor was out to wrap up a fast-selling Christmas package (and incidentally promote its 45-r.p.m. doughnut-hole discs). The question was what to put in it. The obvious answer was to prowl through nearly 50 years of sales files and figures, pick out its "alltime favorites." Victor's selections, announced last week, seemed to put the U.S.'s musical brow somewhere between chin and navel. The first eight: Strauss's The Blue Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny...
Perhaps you were trying a new trend in speech description. May I add one or two-the pancake twang of Mr. Truman (flat and Midwestern), the lettuce phrases of General Eisenhower (crisp), and the doughnut charges of Senator McCarthy (full of holes...
...finally ended last week after one year of battling by the corporation giants. Its conclusion came with the appearance of RCA's long playing record, patterned after Columbia's model. Now the consumer has three different record styles to choose from: the old record at 78 rpms, Victor's doughnut-hole model at 45 rpms, and the long playing ones at 33 1/3 rpms. These three will now compete on an equal footing, for the same material is available on all speeds...