Word: basement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Examples of action-expressionism line his basement studio-bedroom-large black canvases slashed with color laid on with a paint roller, brush and palette knife. Requiem for Bird, named for the late Jazz Saxophonist Charlie ("Bird") Parker, looks like a grey goose hit hard in flight by a charge from a chokebore shotgun. "When I run out of materials, I borrow and steal shamelessly," says Morris. "After I painted some canvases on the Jack Paar Show, I sold one to a dealer in Chicago. Then I was on CBS and NBC newsreels. I got other customers. They came, but they...
...retreat for retired A.G.V.A. members. So far no A.G.V.A. member has retired there. Asked one critic: "What kind of a home is it up there in the hills? You need overcoats, underwear and everything else. What are they going to do in the winter-sit in the basement and watch...
...Soviets always staged a good show. They grabbed off a large, airy upstairs conference room, while Britain and the U.S. were lodged in the basement. They were the only Big Four delegation to brief newsmen in two languages (Russian and English). While Western spokesmen -the U.S.'s earnest Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Berding, Britain's smooth Peter Hope and France's witty Pierre Baraduc-were stuck with reporting the actual facts of the conference, Russia's lively Mikhail A. Kharlamov labored under no such handicap, tirelessly and articulately peddled the Communist line...
...companies of firetrucks with 25 men blocked off Mass. Ave. for an hour yesterday morning fighting a small fire in the basement of Leavitt and Peirce. Firemen clambered all over the buildings opposite Wigglesworth although the blaze was confined to the cellar...
...Geological Museum in Agassiz's complex of scientific collections. Yet Putnam was still pressed for space. In his report to the University in 1898, he complained, "The present halls and cases are overcrowded and many interesting collections have to be kept in drawers or stored in the basement awaiting the completion of the building." It was through his determined efforts that money was raised to build a third part to Peabody, to close the gap and join it with the rest of the University Museum...