Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dubbed "the irritable Christ" by his mother. At 14, he finally convinced his father, chairman of the board of the Austro-Hungarian steel trust, that he should be tutored privately. He took up singing and he tried painting, but he soon decided that both his baritone and brush were too shaky, so he got a job in a Vienna bookshop...
...word, Tsafendas drew the dagger out of its leather sheath, plunged it three times into Verwoerd's chest and once into his neck. The House looked on in horror, too stunned to move. Verwoerd tried to raise one arm to protect himself, then, confused, used it to brush back his hair. He slumped over, blood spurting through his shirt...
...Luis de Boróon and Ribera's Death of Adonis (see color pages). Both works demonstrate Lee's flawless flair for picking a masterpiece that is also an unusual example of its kind. "The modern audience," says Lee, "has come to look to Goya for a brush that is wicked and bitter. But this portrait is of a man that Goya respected and admired. Clearly, he would never win a prize for handsomeness, but there is a sensitivity in his eyes and warmth in his face that is altogether captivating." One of the few royal portraits...
Dreamy Fiction. Malraux himself gave a dreamily fictional account of his brush with the law in his 1930 adventure novel, The Royal Way. There, his hero Claude takes it all with existential calm: "Thanks to the fallen stone, he was suddenly in harmony with the forest and the temple. He pictured the three stones as they had been, one above the other; the two dancing girls were some of the purest work he had ever seen. Well, the next thing was to load them onto the carts...
...nobility of commonfolk and the commonness of nobility from beneath wrinkles and warts. Dela croix used his works as models for copy ing. In admiration, Novelist Honoré de Balzac said of him: "That fellow has Michelangelo under his skin." Yet the world's most famous satirist with brush and pen cost his country 12 francs in 1879 to be put into a pauper's grave...