Word: brush
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this canvas of dollar-sign diplomacy last week came a new, but hardly unexpected, brush stroke: a drastic increase in assistance to the controlling military regime of El Salvador. Drawn, appropriately enough, from the Pentagon's increased revenue, $55 million will go to the Central American country, $25 million ostensibly to replace helicopters destroyed in a raid last week by leftist guerrillas on a military airbase, the rest to fund renewed opposition to that guerrilla insurrection against the nation's coalition of civilian and military rulers. According to Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., the United States...
...like the Easter eggs she writes about, Freeman's tale is delicately and colorfully sketched. From afar, it is a bright and cheerful scene. Poor closely, however, and you begin to see the delicate flaws of the picture. Only then can you see the missed brush strokes and splotches splenty hidden in this pastoral scene...
...vomit, or Pollock-in onyx, or his best work, at any rate-had an almost preternatural control over the total effect of those skeins and receding depths of paint. In them, the light is always right. Nor are they absolutely spontaneous: he would often retouch the drip with a brush. So one is obliged to speak of Pollock in terms of a perfected visual taste, analogous to natural pitch in music-a far cry, indeed, from the familiar image of him as a violent expressionist. As William Rubin suggests in the catalogue to this show, his musical counterpart...
...appearance, he looks untouched by cares. His hair is still untinted, swears Barber Milton Pitts. Aides believe that a daily gymnasium routine as a substitute for ranch work has actually distributed his 183 lbs. a little better than when he relied solely on riding and chopping brush for his exercise...
...arrange an interview with Nancy Reagan, and for filing inaccurate financial disclosure statements. Even though the Justice inquiry cleared him of any crime, Administration officials still had doubts about his judgment, his effectiveness as the President's top foreign-affairs adviser and the lasting impact of his brush with notoriety. As a result, President Reagan has decided to announce this week that Allen will not return...