Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small leaf has been taped in place for the sake of modesty), a reproduction of Ann Pollard, an anonymous American primitive painting of an old woman, and a snippet of Picasso's wall-eyed female Face. Of these oversized miniatures Boh rod says: "It just takes a small brush and a big mind...
Release from Tedium. The range of reasons for this new phenomenon is as diversified as the summer houses themselves. First is the traditional American hankering for outdoor life, perhaps heightened by the brush-fire spread of urbanization. Second is the growing amount of leisure-longer weekends, longer vacations and more money to spend. There is also the stepped-up mobility of modern life: superhighways and fast cars-even private planes-are bringing vacation areas nearer to metropolitan centers. And with the nation's population of those 65 and older growing faster than almost any other age group, the conversion...
...been pretty well distributed over a long lifetime. The show reaches back to 1924, ranges in subject from an affectionate portrait of a puppy, to broad, brooding landscapes, to snapshots of young girls caught at some moment of loneliness. Brook is a lusty personality who uses a lyric brush to paint not the dramatic but the tender side of life...
Teacher in a Cutaway. Brook got some of his first lessons in technique from a character in Manhattan who made his precarious living by doing oil blowups of photo portraits. "He seemed a real artist," Brook recalls, "in a cutaway and striped trousers, working his little brush at breakneck speed. He would produce anything you could imagine-a battleship, a seascape-with dazzling facility." At 16, after a bout with polio that fortunately left no traces, Brook was painting ancient statuary at Pratt Institute; at 17 he enrolled at the Art Students League where in time he became a member...
Performances of Bernie West and Sully Michaels as the two gangsters point up what remains the long suit of summer stock: the dependence on capable comedians. These two professionals deliver their lines -- to a Madison Avenue phrase -- straight to the laugh-control center. Their "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" seems not the least bit hackneyed, in spite of the familiarity of the song. Kiss Me Kate at South Shore offers summer theatre at its finest, inviting just a little more suspension of belief than usual to make a thoroughly enjoyable evening. Broad comedy combines well with the frothy, good humored quality...