Word: brush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes the speed of the brush is important -- it leaves frayed edges, something like the speed lines in cartoons, but in other paintings, like the impressive Wotan, 1950, nothing moves or is meant to. The big rectangle anchored by one edge to the top of the canvas has a massive presence and thickness of paint, and its blunt authority looks forward to what American minimalists would be doing a generation later...
...short of building a Chinese wall, some skeptics wonder whether the U.S. can really seal off a border that consists largely of four-strand barbed wire and the Rio Grande, and includes the barren deserts around Yuma, Arizona; the thick evergreen brush near McAllen, Texas; two ocean ports; and several mountain ranges. The Border Patrol insists it can do so, in part because of that very terrain. The vast majority of crossings now take place in and around urban areas. The crackdowns in San Diego and El Paso rely on enhanced ( technology, fences and manpower over short stretches of mostly...
...something done, even if it means breaking a fingernail. Four years of living in New Haven have toughened her up, given her an edge on life, made everything after Yale seem like a piece of cake. She could wrestle down a wild boar to save her children, brush herself off, and still be the epitome of wit at a dinner party at the Harvard Club that night...
...Antonio, Texas, that he and his colleagues have devised an alternate approach that is much cheaper, simpler and easier on the mother. It removes the need for fertility drugs and daily monitoring. "There is nothing terribly complicated about ((the procedure))," Trounson claims, "so it will spread like a brush fire because the patients want...
Influenced by the writings of Helene Cixous, Doris Lessing, and others, the videos in the "Wild Women Film Festival" offer an easy way for women's studies concentrators to brush on feminist theory...