Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moskowitz, head of sales, "It's like a fairy tale." To assure a happy ending, Mr. Moskowitz warns customers of the few snarls involved: "Don't wear the wig when you are looking at a roast, excessive heat makes it frizz. Don't use a nylon brush, it causes static. Don't comb and brush when wet, the set can come out." Otherwise, he beams, "just wear, and enjoy...
...responses to the survey will be kept on file so that second-year students, before their interviews, can brush up on the social policies of various companies...
Astroflash, a New York computer programmed for astrological horoscopes, issued its forecasts for 1970. Richard Nixon will face-and win-a conflict with "a father-figure, some person of authority." Mao Tse-tung is warned to "beware of unleashing vital forces you might have trouble controlling." After an unsuccessful brush with passion, Gamal Abdel Nasser will "see a dream come true. You will assert yourself, push forward and conquer." No word on Israel's Golda Meir...
Even in his own day, Bruegel must have been considered a superb technician, capable of representing anything. Foreground details exist down to the last bramble on a bush, while in the distance a minuscule brush stroke may distinctly show a man walking or working underneath a tree. Bruegel began with ships' timbers of seasoned oak. He set the planks edge to edge, smoothed them, and then brushed on a white gesso base. He drew his composition on the gesso in gray chalk. That done, he would start painting in egg tempera, thinly and swiftly. His first layers of color...
...What is truth?" The painter, staring, pauses long for his reply. Pieter Bruegel, especially, waits and wonders. There is no hurry; the truth is nothing if not true tomorrow too. He lifts his narrow brush and makes a line. It is a mile-long road that rounds a bend into infinity...