Word: brush
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Federal Reserve officials brush aside such doomsaying. Says Volcker: "The current pause in economic growth need be no more than that." Agrees Anthony Solomon, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank: "These signs of outright weakness are likely to prove temporary...
...White House is deceptively calm, its boss off on his California ranch gathering strength by clearing brush and repairing fences. Nobody will know for certain the shape of his trillion-dollar budget until he hears the options and decides. Predicting Reagan's course is hazardous...
...Impassive styles of the 1960s and '70s - the chaste morsels of minimalism, the arctic pleasures of conceptualism - are now well in retreat before a wave of gesture, expressionism and all the tumult of "painterly" painting. Encouraged by a climate favoring vigor and personality, artists are propelling the brush past the borders of the canvas or turning out sculpturally elaborated frames that complement work in which the hand prevails. At the same time, a general drift away from resolutely flat abstractions and a return to representational painting have revived notions of the picture as a window onto the illusion...
...part of the curriculum. It seemed none of the schools' business. Furthermore, molested youngsters rarely told, either cowed by a stranger's threat or, if the offender was some one close, shamed by the act or fearful of a family blowup. Besides, most grownups tended to brush off chil dren's tales of abuse as fantastic...
...fact copies he made after his own paintings and sent to his fellow painters Emile Bernard and John Russell to show them what he had been up to. As a draughts man, Van Gogh was obsessively interested in stylistic coherence. Just as one can movements of "his brush imitating the microform of nature-the scrawling striations of a gnarled olive trunk, the "Chinese" contortions of A weathered limestone-so the drawings break down the pattern of the landscape and re-establish it in terms of a varied, but still codified system of marks: dot, dash, stroke, slash. In his best...