Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hemingway's Nick Adams, Irving began wandering in quest of experience-"to taste life," he said, "to search for the basic truths." First he went to Detroit to work in a machine shop and absorb the life of the working class. For a time he was a Fuller Brush man in Syracuse. Then he went to Europe, where he finished On a Darkling Plain, a novel in which three college buddies encounter the disillusionments of the postwar world. On the dust jacket, the publisher offered an "unqualified guarantee of reader satisfaction" or the book could be exchanged...
Until he became linked with Hughes, Irving devoted himself to a life of semi-bohemian writing and wandering. The son of Cartoonist Jay Irving, who drew the comic strip Pottsy, Clifford Irving was born in New York City and graduated from Cornell in 1951. He traveled, took odd jobs -brush salesman in Syracuse, machinist's helper in Detroit-lived on a houseboat in Kashmir and taught creative writing at U.C.L.A...
...latest effort to win the hearts and minds of the U.N.'s Chinese staff members, most of whom are leftovers from the days when Taiwan represented China at the U.N. During the 31-hr. tea party, delegation officers cautioned translators to read mainland publications more diligently and to brush up on their mainland idioms. They also pointedly reminded the translators that they do not have "iron rice bowls"-permanent job security...
...generation has so brave ly confronted the basic issues of realism-how to hold the utmost concreteness of three-dimensional volume within the strongest two-dimensional pattern. The vigorously modeled limbs and trunks of his subjects create a pictorial energy that, like the black scaffolding of Kline's brush marks, burst through the edges of the canvas. Pearlstein scorns using photographs. "It never occurred to me," he says, "that people would work from photos-because I never had any difficulty drawing or painting...
...could live an entire lifetime in, say, Tel-Aviv or Haifa, and never be set upon by hostile Arabs, never hear a shot, not the least gunfire, and one's closest brush with death would in all likelihood be on the roads, where cars are driven with the same reckless excitability that seems to grace the entire population. It is indeed true that, as the Israelis never tire of saying, "You are a great deal safer anywhere in Israel than on the streets of New York." But this confidence in day-to-day security, this state of ostensible normalcy, does...