Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taming of the Shrew. Brush up your Shakespeare. "Modernized" by the Boston Shakespeare Company (for more information see Maceth) on Fridays...
Sinister Sensuality. Watkins is more interested in establishing the sensual details of Munch's painting: the sound of a brush dashing paint, a blade peeling pigment off a canvas. Munch's formative affair with a married woman (Gro Fraas) is here devoid of dramatics. Watkins wants us to absorb the colors and emotions of the affair direct from Munch's work, particularly from one, finished in 1893 and full of sinister sensuality, showing a woman leaning close over a man. The painting is titled Vampire. The director dwells on the haunted canvases with a sort of driven...
...painting of an object represents, it's only because they can't get "the real thing"--by which they mean the painting, not the object. And the reproductions will almost always be photographs; we have assumed that the camera gets closer to what it renders, somehow, than the brush does. Artistes, not artists, copy; second rate art students who don't dare make, imitate...
...time limit. It is conceivable that Vorster and his fellow Afrikaners have just two good years in which to set their besieged house in order. If they fail to do so, they may one day discover, as Ian Douglas Smith and his colleagues recently did, that events can simply brush them aside...
...endorse Humphrey-Hawkins, as he eventually did. Although he acquiesced to its inclusion in the Democratic platform, Carter evidently is still rather unenthusiastic about the bill; as President Ford pointed out during the first debate, Carter passed up the opportunity to tar Ford with the same "pro-unemployment" brush that had been used against him only a few months before. Merely addressing an issue does not necessarily serve to educate the voter or provide him with the information required to make a rational decision...