Word: jaggedness
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The plane on the port catapult was ready. Once more the glowing wand circled in the darkness and plunged down. The catapult exploded into action, sent the second plane roaring off. Then, a dreadful sight: the plane was going down, not up. A second later it plunged into the sea...
The Mournful Wind. All around are the ruins of a once great city: gutted buildings, jagged walls without ceilings, acres of desolation through which the mildest wind blows a mournful plaint. Through the ruins to the East Gate Market come those who try to sell their few belongings to buy...
When he returned to England last May, he began sprawling his new ideas on huge canvases, with the jagged outlines of modern cities and the twisting vegetable forms of the tropics, using "that atavistic something" of the primitive artist to illustrate such super-civilized symbols as The Mystic Marriage and...
The Met-appointed juries were on the conservative side, a fact which had led 28 advance-guard abstractionists to boycott the show (TIME, June 5). Possibly to rebut the allegation that they were just old fuddy-duddies, the jurors toppled over backward, chose whole roomfuls of alfalfa-dry, determinedly subjectless...
In London's Architectural Review, British Scholar Geoffrey Grigson sets out to make a case for three such painters, all born in 1741: Henry Fuseli, John Henry Mortimer, and James Barry. "They share," Grigson says, "in the sense of turmoil, of the black and red river, of the black...