Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Like his friends and fellow cubists, Braque and Picasso, Gris began,his pictures as abstractions. "Cézanne," he once wrote, "turns a bottle into a cylinder, but I begin with a cylinder and . . . make a bottle." He represented objects, he added, only "in order to prevent the combination of colored forms suggesting to [the spectator] a reality which I have not intended." Writing "On the Possibilities of Painting," he strictly defined the narrow possibilities of his own approach...
...Want . . " Next week Pettit will report to the Pirates' rookie training camp at San Bernardino, Calif. He will be seasoned this year with the New Orleans Pelicans, a Pirate farm team, and make his big-league debut in 1951. The big question is whether money in the bank will spoil his appetite for baseball, as it did with some other bonus babies, notably Outfielder Dick Wakefield (TIME, Jan. 2). Pettit already has $10,000 on account, and will draw down the rest of his bonus in yearly installments...
Said Movie Producer Stephani: "All I want are the movie rights to make a picture about Pettit when he becomes a star...
...companies sell above the 9,000,000-ton (67.5 million barrels) quota provided they spent the additional dollars so earned in the sterling area. U.S. oilmen thought that too small a concession. To them, it still looked as if the British were trying to force the U.S. to make the world's oil market into one vast, noncompetitive cartel. If so, the only effective U.S. answer might ultimately be a global price war, waged to bring the British to terms...
...last year to Franco's Spain, and offered a resolution prohibiting another loan without approval of a "big majority" of stockholders. Aldrich ruled the resolution out of order, went on to explain that the loan was secured by gold and approved by the State Department. But just to make it quite plain who was boss, he added: "The management of this institution is in the hands of the ... directors . . . The stockholders have no right to intervene...