Word: hot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least of his new pictures seemed to radiate light. There were glowing little pointings labeled Lemons and Oranges, Radishes, or just plain Fruit, but never "Still Life." Marchand hates the term nature morte, never uses it. "Nature," he says, "is never dead." His paintings of bulls silhouetted against hot-colored sand were even livelier than the still lifes. Says Marchand, who returned from Arles with a headful of fact & fancy about fighting bulls: "Do you know they always die at night, standing up, their eyes turned toward the moon...
Angus Ward puffed on a stubby little pipe as he told of living for a month on bread and hot water, two weeks of it in unheated solitary confinement at freezing temperatures. One afternoon, after this "hellish treatment," he was hauled before a Communist court, charged with and convicted of beating a Chinese messenger in a scuffle over pay, and ordered out of China. Red broadcasts to the contrary, Ward said, he had "confessed" nothing...
Turn off the hot tap, turn off the cold; Water is precious, scarcer than gold, Remember the supply is very very short, Don't use a gallon when you can use a quart...
...hot and harried lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh painted some 800 pictures. Was one of them the candlelit, unfinished self-portrait in the collection of Cinemagnate William Goetz? The artist's nephew and Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George...
Some years before, he had made a trip to Washington and stayed at the Mayflower. He liked many things about it, including the Presidential Dining Room where columnists, politicos and union chiefs served up the latest gossip as piping hot as the famed terrapin soup. Most of all he liked the way the Mayflower had gone through the financial wringer and come out making money. He bought...