Word: brush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course." Or sooner-one day after the vote, G.O.P. radio ads were running in the states of six Democrats who supported the amendment when it came to a vote two years ago but changed sides this time. Since none of the six face re-election next year, they can brush off the attacks for now. But one Senate Democrat is lost already. A day after the vote, Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado, who had supported the amendment, switched over to the Republicans. Though his reasons include a long-time feud with Democrats in his state, he cited the amendment defeat...
...posted Chemistry 30 exam scores, exhibiting the Crimson's stereotypical association of Asian Americans on campus. And what about the recent scrutiny on Asian American identity in the Registration issue of the Crimson. Let's apply The Crimson's own criticism of form and content to the Oriental brush-like font chosen to title that piece...
...ever have to endure in a lifetime. Indeed, the reviews were so bilious that this critic found himself wondering whether an artist he had admired for years might not have had a doppelganger-another R.B. Kitaj, pretentiously eclectic, too big for his boots and not much good with the brush, who had somehow snuck his God-awful daubs into the Tate ahead of the real one. But no; the show has now arrived at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it is clearly by the real Kitaj...
Consider, for instance, his portrait of a friend, the English writer Michael Podro. Its title is The Jewish Rider. The man sits in the compartment of a railway carriage. Its upholstery, its projecting headrests and Podro's clothes are rendered in broad swipes of the brush and suggest an unease that is close to violence. The man is on the very edge of his seat, his arm cocked at a peculiar rhetorical angle, his hand on his thigh. We have seen this pose before. It is that of Rembrandt's Polish Rider: the mysterious young man setting out through...
Eating: If you eat breakfast or lunch beforehand, BRUSH YOUR TEETH. Never show up to an interview chewing gum. Never. (Everyone mentioned this little tidbit, so obviously some idiot has done it before...