Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...luminous messenger from the culture of the late medieval Italian courts -a world now as dead as the turned face of the moon and less visible. Manuscript illumination was the most private of all arts, tiny in scale, introverted and forbiddingly difficult to do, a matter of brush strokes one-fiftieth of an inch long and burnished dots of gold no bigger than a flake of cigarette ash. Unlike the grand-scale media of stained glass and fresco -which Michelino also worked in, though little he made has survived-an illuminated manuscript was frequently aimed at an audience...
Darling enjoyed his world tour so much that he repeated it the following year. Now, as he stood contemplating his small frame house, visions of beautiful ladies in Thailand and Singapore, heaving ships at sea, castles on the Rhine bubbled through his brain. He seized his 3-in. brush and green semigloss enamel and began to paint a small grass hut on one wall. It wasn't bad, considering that he had never painted a picture in his life. By the end of the day, the wall was decorated with glassy-eyed maidens and churning waves, and Sanford Darling...
...house. In his artistic development, Darling went through a fairly long Cezanne period and had an affair with early Grandma Moses. In his short Renoir stage, he managed to get the soft wispy effect in his tree leaves by dabbing on latex paint with an ordinary shaving brush. When he was under the Turner influence, he found he could create raging waves by running a dry thumb across Sherwin-Williams Aqua...
...some trivial argument which you present as an aside but which actually takes up most of the piece. Johnson's State of the Union message, for instance, is analyzed in terms of the syntactical construction of two sentences in a manner that suggests that if Bill Moyers doesn't brush up on his Strunk and White the Republic is in trouble. The triviality inevitably derives its impact from the original assertion; thus many pieces are no more than smooth rhetorical tautologies. Columnists are always faced with the dilemma of whether to conclusively demonstrate something trivial or sound the rhetorical trumpets...
Nixon listed the problems of ramshackle judicial machinery: unconscionable delays in criminal cases, overcrowded prisons, court calendars clogged with trivial cases. "All this," he said, "sends everyone in the system of justice home at night feeling as if they have been trying to brush back a flood with a broom." Ultimately, Nixon argued, "the goal of changing the process of justice is not to put more people in jail or merely to provide a faster flow of litigation. It is to resolve conflict speedily, but fairly." In one of the few suggestions of his earlier rhetoric, Nixon declared: "Justice dictates...