Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quack or genius, Roerich led a busy life that brushed against Eternal Krishna the Regenerator-and the ferrets of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue; against dreamy Henry Wallace in Washington-and the 363 local gods of the Punjab's Kulu Valley. On Manhattan's Riverside Drive his devotees reared to his name a 29-story skyscraper, graded (like one of his own paintings of Himalayan mountains) from deep purple at the base to white at the top, and hung there 1,000 paintings from his facile brush. St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie devoted...
...though his courtship may have been plagued with political doubts, there was nothing doubtful about his parting embrace. When Nan held up her cheek he seized her fervidly, planted a lingering kiss which was repeated when she turned the other cheek. Less enthusiastic, Nan replied with a light brush of her lips on his jaw, and patted his shoulder. Then, his face frozen like that of a small boy who wants to weep but will not, he watched her climb into the train for Paris...
...from its temporal context and creating a contemporary Italian Bethlehem. The result was sometimes as stilted-looking as an amateur theatrical, but its wholly unsentimental sweetness more than compensated for that. The sweetness in Luini's pictures could not be mixed on a palette or applied with a brush; it was an inner achievement of the artist himself, a personal innocence and joy, which gave greatness to paintings like the Nativity...
...Library edition), but the Morgan copy was in Thackeray's own neat, minuscule handwriting, and in his watercolors. Thackeray's absurdly hawk-nosed countesses, spindle-shanked kings, periwigged barons, and tubby, pimply princes looked as fresh as if he had just laid down his pen and brush upon his "happy, harmless fableland...
...cows and their calves. Lean-faced, gimlet-eyed, with the brim of his Stetson hat upswept in King Ranch fashion, Bob Kleberg told his vaqueros with swift gestures and quick Spanish phrases which cattle to "cut out" for branding. As a calf high-tailed it for the mesquite brush, the nimble cow ponies always outran it; a vaquero's lasso snaked out and around its neck, brought it thudding to the ground. While the calf still kicked in a cloud of dust, the vaqueros knelt down, swiftly branded it with the King Ranch's "running W," inoculated...