Word: brush
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...studio at Chadds Ford, Pa., with a model of the White House before him, Jamie Wyeth invoked the gift of fancy that runs in his veins, and with his brush brought snow to canvas. Meteorological records were shattered. The giant flakes covered the fountain on the South Lawn and blotted out the driveways. Cars disappeared. Falling snow hushed the city and drew a purple night around it. Wyeth stilled the melancholy world with his lovely strokes and brought the stars out one by one on Christmas Eve. He lighted the window of the Reagans' bedroom with an artist...
...Harvard mat, wrestlers engage in their own version of physical combat. What ultimately distinguishes the genuine from the absurd is that while Stan "Heart-punch" Staziak bloodies the ring with his ludicrous antics, the Crimson wrestlers use their mat as if it were a canvas, worthy of easel and brush...
Fifteen seconds later, a Friar centering pass trickled through the crease in front of Lau, but was flicked safely aside by a Harvard defenseman. A brush with death...
Artistic rebellions usually end in new orthodoxies every bit as rigid and dogmatic as the old. Harry Jackson, 57, did not revise this pattern, he reversed it. In 1957, at the beginning of a promising career in abstract expressionism, Jack son dropped his dribble stick and picked up the brush and palette of a traditional realist. He left New York City for long visits to Wyoming, where he had once worked as a cowhand...
...been playing tennis all day. He won every game. He can't wait to tell Barbie (registered trademark) on their date tonight. Oh-oh! Ken looks at his watch (included)...he's only got 15 minutes to get ready..." Not only can you shave him, you can brush his teeth and blow dry his hair...