Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEILL: SON AND PLAYWRIGHT, by Louis Sheaffer. O'Neill did what only a major artist can do: he made his public share his private demon. In this painstaking biography, the first of two volumes, Author Sheaffer traces the tensions that defined the playwright's life...
...international intelligence game of trying to make the rival service look as dim-witted as possible. Abel boasts that he was able to destroy the most incriminating evidence under the noses of the arresting officers by flushing his encoder down the toilet and scraping paint from his artist's palette onto the coded cable. In the car that took him to prison, Abel claims that one bumbling FBI man examined his hollowed-out tie clasp and let a microfilm message fall to the floor unnoticed. "No professional spy wants to admit that he goofed," says an FBI spokesman, dismissing...
...walls were once an austere brown, blending in well with the historic surroundings of the Harvard Yard. Now, they look more like the paintings of the so-called radical artist Jackson Pollock or the musings of some bathroom graffiti writer (see Time...
...whether the art is abstract, playful or simply aimed to astound the senses or stagger the imagination, each work retains a sense that an individual conceived it and executed it by hand. Moreover, he did it for a purpose-to make the viewer look, and feel, and think. The artist may speak from underground, but he retains, in an elliptical way, his traditional role. It is to make his fellowman more aware, not only of his anxiety but also of the beauty that lurks at his fingertips, in the materials of everyday existence...
...band members call her "Mom." To the rest of the world, she is Mrs. Alice Tondel, a free-lance artist who lives alone near Fresh Pond...