Word: brush
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dorothy grew up in a family of entertainers, bowed in Cleveland at the age of five in a family act. Eartha was a South Carolina farmer's daughter, and long before she reached Manhattan's Katherine Dunham dance school, at 16, she knew poverty and had a brush with voodoo (she still recalls how voodoo charms were found in the mattress after a relative died). Both Eartha and Dorothy made their way to the top through the nightclub circuit as singers, but think of themselves primarily as actresses. This season both made big acting hits, Dorothy as Carmen...
...like snakes under the spell of a charmer's flute. The subject and Wardsworth's careful painting suggest comparison with the primitive, Theodore Rousseau, although the atmosphere is not quite so mysterious or internal. In another oil painting honored by the judges, "Meyer Gate," Donald Outerbridge uses the staccato brush technique of the pointillists to create a Seurat-like composition...
...three days. She joined the sisters in their devotional, working and recreational periods, and soon saw for herself that convent life is not-in the words of the jest-all tedium and Te Deum. There were, for example, the sisters on a work detail clearing stumps and burning brush who wisely took along marshmallows for toasting; and the candle-bearing novice who set fire to the veil of another novice in the procession for Compline, the last office of the convent day. "There was plenty of action," recalled the Novice Mistress with a hearty laugh. One young sister, thinking...
...country, where we'd both feel the urge to sketch. Sometimes he'd take his canvas and begin to paint. And that, well, that was no good. This fellow who had the taste and talent to draw became abnormal as soon as he touched a brush...
Liquid Tile. A liquid plastic that dries into a smooth, hard, waterproof, tile-like surface was put on sale by Ev-R Shield Products, Inc. of Joppa, Md. "Glascote," painted by brush, swab or roller onto porous materials like plaster, plaster wallboard, seasoned wood, concrete or pressed wood, develops a poreless finish that, says the manufacturer, is invulnerable to all known solvents. Price...