Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George C. Scott, perhaps hoping that no one will notice him, disinterestedly portrays a heist artist named Walter Upjohn Ballantine, who, in the words of an admirer, is the possessor of "the most spectacular rap sheet" in the FBI'S files. Among Ballantine's most highly regarded credits are shanghaiing an oil tanker in mid-ocean and stealing a million dollars in nickels from the U.S. mint. A crony named Al G. Karp, who looks like a softball that sweats, springs him from the pen to enlist his help on a new scheme: to break a bank called...
Then, realizing the situation, the artist took charge of Lucy and hustled her out of the room. The two women hastily packed and were miles away in a car when Roosevelt died two hours later while Bruenn worked over...
...choice was curiously appropriate. Touring a show of experimental art in 1962, Khrushchev was startled by what he saw. He likened it to "painting done by an ass with its tail." Neizvestny was the most prominent artist represented, and he argued forcefully against Khrushchev for an hour. Though the party chief did not change his views on art, he was impressed by Neizvestny's courageous defense and, as he left, told the artist: "You are the kind of man I like." Later, after his forced retirement, Khrushchev expressed regret for having argued with Neizvestny...
Died. Moses Soyer, 74, Russian-born painter given largely to creating moody, sympathetic portraits in a traditional romantic-realistic style; in Manhattan. Soyer, whose twin brother Raphael and younger brother Isaac are also artists, came to the U.S. with his family when he was twelve. He received much of his early formal art training on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where rough-hewn street people served as his models. A diminutive man with large gentle eyes, Soyer was well known for his portrait of Fellow Artist Jack Levine and for The Green Room, a painting of three women...
...desolating the Yard and the tell-tale grade-point average was dipping again. On a cold night, again at 3:30 a.m., Young once more confronted the erstwhile howler and appealed to him to resume his daily yelp, but the young man refused to be compromised as an artist, and went on to lead a fulfilling life as an urban planner. This story is not really pertinent, but it is a word of warning to freshmen...