Word: pleasingness
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The Soviet caviar industry has a persistent problem: too many sturgeons are males, which yield no caviar.† And despite years of effort, no one yet has discovered any way to alter this unproductive balance of nature. But Soviet Biologist Boris Astaurov, an authority on practical sex determination, is about...
These briars, however, have been pruned -or leaped-with resolute skill by a gifted scenarist, Ivan Moffat (Giant), and an astute director, Henry King (The Sun Also Rises). King faced his biggest problem in Actress Jones, and the problem wasn't only age: in recent films the lady has...
Getty boasts an even longer pedigree for his Diana, tracing it to 1655 (Rubens died in 1640), when the Marquis de Leganés. Spanish Ambassador to Brussels and a friend of Rubens', listed the work in an inventory of his collection. Getty's Rubens expert, Columbia Professor...
The remaining principles of Hsieh Ho include proper usage of the brush, careful depiction of forms, "pleasing" application of color, and transmission and perpetuation of the masters. This sixth principle deeply influenced Chinese painting. Imitation of the great masters tends to become unimaginative repetition. There is no taboo on plagiarism...
Particularly pleasing to the crowd which half filled Watson Rink was the Crimson penalty-killing play. During the varsity's three penalties (one was called for "too many men on the ice") goalie Godfrey Wood actually could have relaxed while teammates like Gene Kinasewich led the Huskies on merry chases...