Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...utter foolishness, nothing quite matches the practical joke that backfired tragically on a 25-year-old Dallas lad last month. While waiting for his three hunting companions to return to their campsite near Llano, Texas, he got a sudden inspiration. He hid in a clump of heavy brush along the trail leading to the camp; when his friends drew alongside, he made snarling noises and shook the bushes violently. The charade worked perfectly. Convinced that they were about to be attacked by a mountain lion, the three hunters opened fire, and killed him on the spot...
...long journey from obscurity (TIME, Jan. 21). The somber Iberian chord is struck again and again-in El Greco's haunted saints and cities, Goya's grim disasters of war, processions of penitents flogging themselves and one another. Appropriately, the final plate is Picasso's brush drawing of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza...
...brush with the Nazi Party, Kiesinger last week released the text of a 1948 ruling by a denazification board, which commended him for opposing "Nazi despotism through the possibilities open to him" and quoted the testimony of German Catholic and Protestant leaders that Kiesinger had helped try to overthrow Adolph Hitler after the failure of the July 20, 1944, assassination attempt...
...memorial show assembled shortly after his death in 1938. At that time Glackens seemed out of fashion, with his tranquil ladies, summer-resort scenes and cityscapes thronged with meandering crowds. Today, his obvious borrowing from Renoir's palette seems less important than the pleasures of his sinuous brush stroke, sauciness of color, and the pure joyousness of his subjects. Although Glackens borrowed the impressionists' glasses, he saw the American scene with eyes that were first trained in the reporter's craft...
...decides that Kennedy was a great President. His reasons: Kennedy made the nuclear deterrent credible, and he made clear the social and economic problems that face the U.S. For a third criterion of greatness, Alsop offers an odd suggestion: "As far as nature will permit young American males now brush thei: hair forward and out, in a sort of prow to make it look as much like John Kennedy's hair as possible...