Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most key areas, the U.S. has capabilities that do not need reinforcement. The U.S. undoubtedly will have to shift some forces to correct imbalances resulting from the new British program. But those will be mostly intertheater shifts and probably will not require additional overseas troop shipments. As for brush wars of the Korea type, the U.S. long ago made its decision entirely apart from anything the British might say or do: such wars will be fought with atomic weapons and missiles...
...Books. Tessai belonged to the Nanga (Southern) or Bunjin (Literary Man) school of scholars for whom art is a secondary accomplishment. To keep their amateur standing clear, they scorned the meticulous brushwork of the professionals. Tessai, who considered his calligraphy an essential part of his art. took up his brush only when the spirit moved him. Not until the final decade of his life did he decide that he had mastered his craft...
...Patriarchs of Religions Boating Together was done in Tessai's last year. The six figures, representing key personages in Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian religious history, are symbolic of Tessai's belief in the underlying unity of Oriental religions. By his controlled use of sumi-ink splash and brush strokes, Tessai turned his white paper into a water-lily-strewn waterway and sky; at the same time his forceful brushwork created a protomodern example for much that in Western painting passes for abstract expressionism. Looking at these last works, one Japanese critic mused: "They are like flowers that bloom...
...land, now occupied by houses, small truck gardens and undeveloped brush land, lies in the heart of Sarnia's famed "chemical valley," surrounded by Canada's biggest complex of petrochemical industries. The new owners plan to divide the land into industrial sites. To the delight of Sarnia city officials, the formerly tax-free property will now go on the tax books to help support the city's overstrained municipal services...
...recommend her-an open, frankly sentimental, strongly appealing style. She makes her entrance chanting Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing in a slightly husky, twangy voice. After the applause dies down, she may take off her glasses, pick up a battered cymbal and start flailing it with a wire brush while she launches into a foot-stomping, open-throated jazz version of Lazy River...