Word: illusionality
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Higher and Higher (R.K.O.Radio). One of the most remarkable events since the Flood took place on New Year's Eve in some 50 U.S. cinegogues. On a screen wispy with angelic clouds, a clinching pair of lovers receded to a vanishing point and were replaced by a speck which...
Best story is Rudolph Umland's fantastic folk tale, Phantom Airships of the Nineties, about the great airship illusion in the corn belt. Airships were rarer than passenger pigeons when in 1890 Nebraskans first began to see mysterious lights in the night sky. Soon they saw airships flying "with...
Like a beautiful painting without warmth . . . the figure without a bosom. But put the flat-chested woman in the proper foundation . . . giving the illusion of soft, sweet curves. . . .-From an ad by Manhattan's swank Bonwit Teller.
Even the great originality which was soon to characterize his painting proceeded not out of flamboyant inventiveness but from a love of method. He became convinced that painting could and should be based on science-the laws of optics, the precise study of color values, etc. A voracious reader and...
". . . Hope of finding traitors here rests on complete ignorance of the character of the National Socialist State; a belief that they can bring about a July 25 in Germany rests on a fundamental illusion as to my personal position as well as about the attitude of my political collaborators and...