Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Army (for refusing it medium-range missiles), and with the Air Force, although he was Air Force Secretary before becoming Wilson's assistant. Air Force corridor gossip accuses Quarles of accepting Air Force budget cuts too complaisantly, of refusing to be "tarred with the Air Force brush" because he wanted to maintain the neutrality necessary to succeed Wilson as Defense Secretary: Although Quarles's friends give him high marks for his service impartiality, he is in danger of reaping the whirlwind of Charlie Wilson's mistakes. New Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy leans...
...once]-contour, matiere, surface, color, line, all in the same stroke." Thus Paris Painter Pierre Soulages, at 37 a roaring commercial success and winner of several international art prizes, describes the effort behind his huge, bulking canvases-massive, broad strokes of dark paint laid on the light background with brush, board, strips of leather and cardboard to make a bold structural pattern that is now his signature and trademark...
...Think, Imagine." One of the new breed of action painters. Soulages follows the trail blazed by Hans Hartung (TIME, April i), but carries to the extreme the view that "reality is not in appearance alone, but also in what men feel, think, imagine." For him, even the calligraphy of brush strokes is anathema, a romantic hangover from the days when the viewer, willy-nilly, could follow the painter's hand, guess and second-guess his intentions and hesitations. Soulages. with his plank-sized strokes, aims to hit the spectator with one knockout blow...
...Motherwell's entry-loud, messy, vigorous and oblique. Part of the title-Je t'aime, No. 11-A-was scrawled with grey mud against a background of black and orange bars. Beneath the letters was a bloody smear, at the point of what might be an upright brush. It did seem an odd way to say: "I love...
...time of crisis, the troops will be airlifted 1,000 miles from Kenya to Aden, to pick up the heavy vehicles and weapons stored there for them (thereby saving the cost of a new base in Kenya). The new force is designed primarily to deal with trouble or brush-fire rebellions in such oil-rich domains as Bahrein and Kuwait or in the string of other British protectorates to whose defense Britain is committed by treaty. An attack on Britain's Baghdad Pact allies-Turkey, Iran. Iraq and Pakistan-would require a far wider response than Aden could provide...