Word: brushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maharani of Jaipur. Or late lunch in the Trattoria Panciolle, followed by a long siesta. The music of pianos, violins and vocalizing floats out of narrow Renaissance windows; artists and audience are on first-name terms within hours. After dusk, international jet setters in white dinner jackets brush shoulders with gaping locals in sweatshirts at the superheated discothéque. Then it is on to a 16th century vaulted cellar that serves cannelloni till dawn...
...Welcome," he opened, "to 'Jack Paar and His Friends.' " It was virtually the only abrasive brush of the hour. "Some people," he cautioned, "expect a tearful farewell. Others expect I will take a few swings." But Jack held back both tears and hostilities. His "easy way out" was to limit his contribution to a few bridges of continuity-the rest of the show was a splice-up of some of his favorite vignettes from past seasons. There he was again as the bowlegged, barelegged (except for anklet socks) toreador fleeing a rampaging bull in a Madrid ring...
...lithe, balding artist nosedives at a canvas spread on the studio floor. His brush uncurls a reptilian ripple of paint that twines and insinuates itself into a snakepit of color. "All I try to do is let out the monsters inside me," he says, "the monsters we all are." Shades of Jackson Pollock? No, it is Belgian-born Artist Pierre Alechinsky speaking, and at 37 he is already a latter-day saint of action painting...
...only uses it as a means of liberating his vision. He explains: "I don't think there's any point to endless searches for new techniques, like musicians looking for new sonorities. It is still possible to get touching music from the piano. With oil and brush, you can tell a story. You don't need 40 tons of cement. Give a man a piece of paper and a pencil, and you'll see what he can produce with means so simple and humble." What Alechinsky does is to turn man's half-tormented, half...
Warren ruled nonetheless that in granting presidential power in "explosive" foreign relations, "Congress must of necessity paint with a brush broader than it customarily wields in domestic areas." The stage is now set for a problem the court left open: Government prosecution of 150 U.S."students who illegally visited Cuba in 1963 and 1964. If convicted, they may face five years' imprisonment and $5,000 fines...