Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take the chance, and sure enough, it was covered with a 50year-old brown tone applied for Prince Harrach of Vienna to make it look older. That was the fashion in those days. When I had it removed, the painting came alive. You could see the artist's brush strokes and even hairs from his brush. The Cleveland Museum had turned it down before. But when they saw it cleaned, they bought...
...minutes are spent considering the latex paint and high gloss on the polished wooden floors that have replaced whitewash and brush brooms, inevitably softening the mean reality of turn-of-the-century Texas hill-country life. Then the familiar voice of Lady Bird Johnson, tape-recorded and piped through speakers in each room, leads the group through: "You are now looking in what was the President's nursery. The small Teddy bear on the cradle was the President's favorite...
...nephew of Hollywood Composer-Conductors Alfred and Lionel Newman, Randy the arranger is also a match for Randy the balladeer. In Cowboy, for example ("Cold gray buildings where a hill should be/Steel and concrete closin' in on me"), he evokes lonely saddles and scattered dust with craggy orchestral brush strokes that show a familiarity with Aaron Copland's Rodeo and Billy...
...forces into Cambodia, evidently without realizing the outcry of protest that this would provoke, he set off angry charges that he is too isolated from many sections of American opinion. Interior Secretary Walter Hickel pleaded that Nixon pay more attention to the young, complained that he got a swift brush-off from the President's staff?and reported that he had been able to see Nixon alone exactly twice since taking office 16 months before...
...they struggle to get the U.S. moon program back on schedule, scientists are anxiously seeking the cause of Apollo 13's brush with disaster. At the same time, they are still analyzing the findings of earlier lunar missions. Both efforts are paying off handsomely...