Word: brush
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard baseball team took its Brush Hill Sightseeing Shuttle across Cambridge yesterday. Here's what the Crimson saw en route to the 9-7 victory over MIT that lifted Harvard's record to 19-3 overall, 5-1 in the Greater Boston League...
...view of the painting by Santa Monica Artist Don Bachardy, which they said looked more like spilled soy sauce and ketchup than art. Cracked State Senator Newton Russell: "Do we have any room in the head?" Aesthetically conservative lawmakers balked at putting the work, with its multicolored brush strokes, next to the sober portraits of Brown's 33 predecessors. More pragmatic pols argued that there was simply no more room in the capitol's main corridor, where pictures are traditionally hung. Last week the joint rules committee settled the issue by voting for the muse: the painting...
Galileo's first brush with the authorities came in 1616, when he received a warning from Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, the leading theologian of the time...
...paint on the canvas looks sluggish and frozen, like cake icing. (In the early '60s, Morley did put the pigment on with icing nozzles.) Its dull turbulence parodies the violence implicit in expressionist paint handling. The heavy brush stroke is no longer an index of earnestness; it quotes strong feeling without necessarily endorsing it. Morley's blend of coolness and violence has some of the hypnotic impact of early Warhol. But it is far more complicated and nuanced, and it is free from overtones of chic...
...Small and fragile-looking, she skates with elegant ease and has some of Witt's knack of making the Axels and the Salchows look simple. She was the crowd's favorite, swirling and swooping through a move she has patented as the "Chin spin": stretching out to brush the ice with one hand while she whirls with one leg fully extended. After finishing second overall in the combined short and long programs, she is no longer a comer, but the star of a new generation...