Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first exhibition fills two rooms with works by the eccentric Japanese painter Soga Shohaku (1730-1781). A fiercely independent man, Shohaku was considered a fanatic by his contemporaries. Trying to revive the no longer fashionable 15th century monochrome tradition, he preceded 20th century action painters. His brush-work, like de Kooning's' is vigorous and sweeping but controlled. His huge dragons and drinking sages fill enormous floor to ceiling panels and scrolls...
Then, in a six-minute ceremony, Episcopal Canon Gerald McAllister of San Antonio united dimpled Lynda Bird Johnson, 23, and Marine Captain Charles Spittal Robb, 28, a brush-cut, bridge-playing descendant of Lord Baltimore. Asked who gave the bride away, L.B.J. could not resist a pitch for feminine votes, and said: "Her mother and I." On behalf of the Marine Corps, six of Chuck Robb's fellow officers crossed swords outside the East Room to form an arch as the couple exited. When Yuki tried to join the picture-taking session in the yellow Oval Room, Lady Bird...
...like a rattlesnake," Cap'n Eddie said at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington. "If I had my way I'd give draft-card burners a good lashing and a good haircut; I would give beatniks the same, and get a good old-fashioned horse-curry brush and give 'em a good bang. I'd put these odds and ends out in front in Viet Nam to fight with the enemy in front and bayonets in back...
...experience. Dr. Mary B. Lane, professor of education at San Francisco State College and a childless widow of 56, now has a three-year-old son and a nine-month-old daughter. Says she: "I wish I had the resources to take a dozen." Women who have never married brush aside any implication that being a mother should cause comment. Chortles Louise Guenthner, 59, director of the Washington State Adoption Resources Exchange, who adopted an eleven-year-old Greek orphan and his nine-year-old sister: "It delights me when I am introduced as 'Miss Guenthner, an unmarried mother...
Destination Unknown. Wolman had his first brush with creditors in 1949 at age 22, when he and his brother opened a grocery store and could not pay $5,000 in bills. He issued promissory notes, then piled into a 1938 Chevrolet and drove off with his wife-destination unknown. Only a chance pickup of a Washington, D.C.-bound hitchhiker led them to that city, where he took a $75-a-week job in a paint store. His wife went to work for an insurance com pany. From their combined incomes, Wolman paid off the creditors, and in 1952 he decided...