Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from reality. He painted innumerable nudes in all sorts of settings, and they all look as if he had made up the anatomy as he went along; sometimes they swirl about like leaves in the wind. Beach scenes, forests, Biblical stories, murders and imaginary wars poured from Eilshemius' brush -some repugnant, some enormously appealing, like the man himself...
Privacy scarcely exists in the dormitories. In cell-like rooms jutting off long corridors sleep numerous little Radcliffe students in two straight lines. 'Cliffies can't even lock their own rooms. In the lavatories they brush their teeth three in a row. And meals are always eaten with nine other people...
Remembering the Future. Brooks is a sage man who does better than most in trying to articulate the sometimes manic-expressive business of abstract art. Of the mysterious moment when paint leaves the brush and becomes painting, he says: "The crucial thing for a painter is getting to the point where he can maintain some sort of pictorial balance between alertness and dumbness, where he is thinking but it can't be classified as thinking...
...circus stars, live in Sarasota. In Sarasota, even the high school has a circus. Three years ago Vicki told her father that she wanted to perform. Vicki was 5 ft. 3 in. and 125 Ibs. Said her father, with a pro's cold cynicism: "What will you do, brush off the seats?" Vicki lost 10 Ibs. and went into training under the great Lalage, whose real name is Wolfgang Roth...
...Three stocks; yet its 10-to-1 price-earnings ratio was as good or better than the bigger automakers could boast. Another attraction to investors was the fact that AMC is one of the few big U.S. industrial corporations with no long-term debt to worry about; since its brush with bankruptcy in the early 1950s, the company has totally paid off its once crushing burden of debt, and such expansion as it is currently planning will be financed out of retained earnings...