Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...from Mr. Van Gogh's firm belief in the permanence of Vincent's contribution to art. During an interview yesterday, it became clear that he like to talk about the purely Dutch elements which his uncle depicted while in southern France. The drawbridge, boats on the beach and the flat, plain-like terrain of Vincent's mature work are all typically Dutch, not French, themes. The recurrent motif, found in the late works, of mountains rising in the distance beyond the plains reflects the lowlander's fondness for height. In Dutch medieval manuscripts the local terrain is invariably represented...
Still, why does the U.S. refuse to make a flat yes-or-no statement on its intentions so that everybody knows clearly how things stand? Simply because, as one ranking Pentagon officer put it last week, there are "certain conditions" under which the U.S. would indeed be foolhardy to unlimber its guns for Quemoy's sake. So far, the Communists have hesitated to test U.S. intentions-a situation that Candidates Nixon and Kennedy themselves would have done better...
...least one contract laboratory, Dr. Schaeffer found, openly suggests in its advertising brochures that doctors can increase their income by subscribing to its flat-rate service, then charging unknowing patients "discretionary" fees ranging as high as those they would pay for personalized lab service...
MANY a U.S. woman -and man-boggles at the flat-chested styles that occasionally spring from Paris couturiers, but no one resents them with a deeper passion than a spry little (4 ft. 10 in.) grandmother named Ida Rosenthal...
...fans like four beers on a hot afternoon, and to chill his de tractors like four draughts of anti-beer, a potion (mercifully still to be invented) that leaves a man progressively soberer and meaner. Good Bye, Ava is not exactly anti-beer; it is simply a little flat...