Word: brush
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...commuters in Kogarah to his first diary accounts of soldiers while making a film in Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution, Gittoes has been interested in rendering the forces of industry and war. "I understand soldiers," he says. And his understanding has come about as much through pen, pencil and brush, as his new show of drawings at Sydney's Australian Galleries makes startlingly clear. Of his four trips to Baghdad, no event confounded Gittoes as much as the 2004 abduction of Irish-born CARE International worker Margaret Hassan. "She was a very smart woman, but she was also a lady...
...most beautiful fabric and shown in the most fabulous ways. (3) Sometimes you will think you will see Morrissey wearing Ugg boots and bopping his head to music. It may not be Morrissey (perhaps a mere gay man with rhythm), but you can amuse yourself with this imaginary brush with stardom for hours and hours to come.THE AMERICAN DREAMAfter the show, you get to hear incredible C-list conversations. Examples: “Wow! I fucking loved those sack dresses! Brilliant!” “I’m just so glad to give back to causes such...
...like explosion near the end of final song “SXRT.” The outburst quickly fades, though, into eerily peaceful bells that float off like a wisp of smoke. Now the wait begins once more. Bloc Party has proven itself twice and has just begun to brush the surface of its own potential with a smattering of musical genres. Okereke and the rest of Bloc Party leave you with the hope of still being able to fall into a deep, modern love. —Reviewer Andrew Nunnelly can be reached at nunnelly@fas.harvard.edu...
...about a tailor in Calcutta who stood for every election," Saraf recalls. "He always lost but considered it his duty to run. I wondered, What if he won? There are a number of films, like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, in which a golden-hearted fool has an awkward brush with the levers of government. Those films usually end with a warm and fuzzy feeling. Obviously, I do not hold Indian democracy to such high standards...
...expression. Utamaro, for instance, could with a mere line or two describe the course of a river or the fullness of a women's breast. Thus could Monet - in Impression, Sunrise (1873), the painting that gave Impressionism its name - conjure up a boat with a mere squiggle of the brush...