Word: brushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sudburydistrict of Ontario. To supplement that, the company has been busily prospecting for nickel all around the world. It recently signed a partnership agreement with the French government to mine in New Caledonia, has been carrying on protracted negotiations for other finds in Guatemala, and is beating the brush for nickel in Africa, Australia and Indonesia...
...possible, even more concerned with making his paintings fill the viewer's whole field of vision. The 9-ft. by 6-ft. portraits, mostly of naked women, which he executes in steely tones, have an unnerving frontality arising from the fact that Leslie's brush goes beyond what the naked eye would see. He cunningly divides his figures into four sections, then paints head, chest, abdomen and thighs separately, each viewed from eye level. He elevates his models on platforms, or for self-portraits, uses a male model posing in his clothes...
...sparked a fresh round of gold buying on the London market and new speculation against ster ling. It was small satisfaction that the French, who have done their share of speculating against the pound in Brit ain's recent troubles, suddenly found themselves tarred by the same brush: ru mors of a devaluation of the franc plummeted France's coin of the realm 21 fractional points...
...battle dress. In addition, they now have 50,000 airborne "red berets," patterned after U.S. Green Berets, and 6,000 black-bereted "naval infantry," the Soviet equivalent of the U.S. Marines. All of this represents not only a major departure in Russian strategy but also a grim warning that brush fires the world over may draw the U.S., and in some cases its NATO allies, into sudden confrontation with the Soviet Union...
...watch on all "mysterious space vehicles." UFOs have been particularly ubiquitous in Yugoslavia, whose press has gleefully recounted a Montenegrin shepherd's report of a whistling, skyscraper-high UFO, told of UFOs streaking over the Istrian port of Koper, and detailed Truck Driver Milika Scepanović's brush with two saucers on the Kovina-Ivangrad road last week...