Word: blob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alben Barkley, with a stuffy nose and a racking cough, presided over the Senate in the old Supreme Court chamber* where there is barely room to swing a cat. Occasionally, he tapped for order with the tiny blob of ivory that serves as his gavel...
...reproduction firms, Janine explained, "concentrate on color alone. But a painting has texture as well. To simulate that we use dozens of materials: cardboard, paper, stencils, canvas, silk screens . . . Sometimes we use as many as seven different processes to reproduce one original." Janine and Jean had built each blob of pigment up to the same thickness as that in the original paintings. They made as many as 600 facsimiles of each painting, sold them for $15 to $20 in Paris. The copies will soon be retailed in the U.S. at $40 each...