Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visiting Syrian officers last week took a tour along Lebanon's border with Israel. The trip was uneventful until the tiny convoy reached Ramieh, a town eight miles inland from the Mediterranean where paved roads run parallel on both sides of the border. There the Syrians emerged from brush and trees along the Lebanese road to a startling sight. Scarcely a hundred yards away, five Israeli tanks and three halftracks lay in ambush for them on the other road...
...only in format -they are usually long, narrow rectangles, which drench the viewer in a field of color-but also in their light and density of surface. Resnick is a quite traditional painter, to the extent that he works in intimate, stroke-by-stroke contact with his painting. Brush marks pile on one another, forming a layered web of minutely graded pigment. (Some times the crust gets so thick that it is physically unwieldy: one large canvas in the show, Pink Fire, has 450 lbs. of paint on it.) The effect is not of a grand abstract-expressionist gesture...
...later worked up a series of big landscapes from his sketches. Estes Park, Colorado, 1869, is a magnificently rhetorical painting, but the hyperbole was constrained by Bierstadt's lyric exactness of eye as it roved across the calm lake and the billowing mist and crags behind. Such, the brush insists, are the lineaments of an earthly paradise...
...Crimson will have another chance to brush up for the EIBL showdown when it plays at Springfield today. Over the past four years, Springfield has established itself as one of the best teams in New England, and with a record of 17-3, the Chiefs have already secured a play-off berth in the NCAA's Mid-Atlantic small colleges' division...
...choice. They shot at us so we don't go, but we ran for two days until we hit the mines." For the first time in the current Communist offensive, sizable numbers of Americans, too, are in the path of the assault. A drive on Hué would brush perilously close to the U.S. airfield and communications center at Phu Bai, six miles south of the city. The base is guarded by two of the six U.S. combat battalions remaining in South Viet...