Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...pictures were mostly of putty-colored seashores awash with pea-soup seas and peopled by puppet-like fishermen. Though the colors were dreary, they did make a wet, mysterious atmosphere, and Leonid's brush had time & again captured the textures of dry dunes and soaking sand flats, the hiss and sigh of retreating waves. Moreover, his drawing was as graceful as the brushwork of a Chinese calligrapher. Each composition was a looping arabesque in which men and boats were neatly knotted, carrying the gaze back and back to far-distant horizons...
Painting space, Leonid thinks, is not half so tricky as it's cracked up to be: "It's a question of color and line. You make your objects very bright in the foreground and not at all bright on the horizon...
...Calumet's campaign to make Citation the first "million-dollar horse" in history ($867,750 so far), his $2,600 share of the purse was hardly worth picking up. But Citation was back in form again: and that was racing news. Trainer Jones bustled down to the winner's circle to meet his horse as he jogged back, his bay hide splotched with mud and lather. Jimmy crouched, stared anxiously at the foreleg that had long kept Citation idle, and announced with relief: "He's sound . . . When he tells me-as he did a couple of days...
...comers. In the next six weeks, as Sammy made a coast-to-coast tour of 30-odd U.S. and Canadian cities, anyone with $2 and sufficient brass could have a go at him. In a really busy session, Sammy estimates that he trots 15 to 20 miles to make an average of 20 to 60 moves on each board. He likes to knock off 40 at a time, although recently at Germantown, Pa. he faced 75 in one evening...
Said outgoing N.C.A.A. President Karl Leib: "I predict we will have chaos in college athletics." If any college wanted to play Sanity Code football there was nothing to stop them - but nobody could make them...