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Shadows in a Cell. When Munch began painting, the great new movement was impressionism. Though Munch admired and benefited from this exploration into the mysteries of light, he himself was concerned with "shadows and movements, such shadows as a prisoner sees in his cell, those curious grey streaks of shadows which flee and then return, which slide apart and come together again like fans, bending, curving, dividing." In almost all his canvases there is such tension and vibration that even a bright landscape like Midsummer Night (see color) seems about ready to disintegrate into tragedy. For Munch, nature was filled...
East Berlin resembled the weather-leaden grey skies, bone-chilling wind, a damp slurry of mud and snow. The city was dark, and the shops were sparsely stocked. Only sign of the holiday season was the Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas market) set up near the Sportsplatz. Here a seedy collection of carnival rides attempted gaiety to the music of a prewar Harry James record. Pathetic crowds surrounded the few booths selling candied apples or thin bits of herring on hard rolls. Missing was the pungent smell of broiling sausage, for an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease has made meat, and especially...
...grey-flannel dismay of advertisers everywhere, thousands of teenagers, are lining up across country to buy a product with almost no value of any kind except for laughs. Its name: Greasy Kid Stuff...
...union among the world's free democracies. And he spent a great deal ot time at his country home far out on Long Island staring at the universe through his 21 telescopes. Television? "I watch the show that's on now," he says, pointing at the dead grey screen of a cold set in his living room...
...scenes of pandemonium reminiscent of 1929, the grey, fortresslike New York Stock Exchange shuddered and shook. Glamour stocks such as Brunswick Corp., Fairchild Camera and Xerox, which had been selling on the strength of capital-gains potential rather than current dividends, crashed to half or even a quarter of their 1961 highs. Mighty IBM, which had become more of a cult than a stock, plummeted from 578½ in January to a low of 300 in June. Dropping like a shot goose, the market lost $23 billion in paper values during a single hectic week in late May, and $21 billion...