Word: brushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...criticism came from both House and Senate, from Republicans and Democrats-and from no fewer than seven different congressional panels. Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, still smarting from McNamara's curt brush-off last summer of a Stennis report on materiel shortages, announced that his Senate Preparedness Investigating subcommittee is undertaking "an overall assessment of the extent of our military commitments." Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening, chairman of a Senate Government Operations subcommittee, will examine "unnecessary and wasteful disposals" of surplus military vehicles...
Lawrence, who came to Braniff from Continental Airlines, turned to the color brush as a quick way to paint over a dowdy image. Between 1945 and 1964, Braniff had slipped from fifth to ninth place among U.S. trunk airlines, was notorious for late flights, sloppy service and shoddy equipment. Its routes included everything from long flights to Buenos Aires to costly Texas puddle jumps, but the airline had not won a new route for ten years and was barely making money. "Flying had become a crawling bore," says Lawrence today. "But flying should be fun-and colors are fun." When...
...whirling his images into vortexes of color. On occasion, nature vied with his vision. When he was 59, London's Houses of Parliament were gutted by fire. Turner, who rarely used more than a pencil to sketch out-of-doors, rushed to the bank of the Thames to brush out nine water-colors of the burning buildings (see opposite). He even blotted his copybook pages against each other in his eagerness to capture that dramatic scene. A romantic's delirium, it was the apocalypse brought to reality-the flames mirrored in the water, the starry skies burning with...
...everything from peat moss to chamois-colored gloves with green thumbs, companies such as Jackson & Perkins and Burpee begin years in advance to cross-fertilize flowers to achieve the blend of color, size and hardiness to captivate this spring's buyer. To produce a new hybrid, employees brush pollen individually onto the pistils of 10,000 roses, consider themselves lucky if three of the resulting 100,000 seedlings seem worth cultivating. The Mexicana rose cost $50,000, not an extravagant expenditure if only 1% of the nation's 35 million rose growers...
...MARTIAL RAYSSE, 30, is a Frenchman who, in his addiction to brightness, persuaded his wife to wear fluorescent-hued shoes. Then, he says, "I found neon. It is living color, a color beyond color. The pen and the brush are outdated." He thinks of himself not as pop or op but as "a neon-realist." Says he: "I want everything in my work to be good-looking and brand-new. If you draw a Picasso and put neon on it, you don't have anything new." Raysse has fallen in love with painting in light: "Neon most accurately expresses...