Word: brushings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the Fuller Brush Man rings once, look twice-he may well be a woman. After relying almost entirely on men for 60 years, Connecticut's Fuller Brush Co.-taking a tip from Avon Products-has hired 17,500 women this year, plans eventually to field 50,000, mostly part time. Throughout the country employers are turning more and more to women to fill jobs that they have never held before, or at least not since the World War II heyday of Rosie the Riveter...
From the eddying hues of his scenes done in Yellowstone Park to the evanescent brush strokes of the glades near his Cos Cob, Conn., farm, there is more quiet transparency than passion. Twachtman collected Chinese paintings, and their gentle influence shows. His scenes (see color page) are stripped down to Mondrianesque simplicity yet they stand at symphonic distance from the Dutch abstractionist's boogie-woogie colors. Twachtman's task was to portray tranquillity in nature almost at her vanishing point...
...hard to feel really sorry for her, but Beryl Reid brings her to such vividly bitchy life that it is also hard to take the eye or mind off her. Equally expert and subtle are the acting strokes with which Eileen Atkins and Lally Bowers brush in the characters of the other two witches. Frank Marcus' spoofing of the BBC is the weakest aspect of his play, but his stingingly unsentimental probe of what is foolish, vile, vain, concupiscent, and servile in the human animal stirs up a cauldron of laughter...
...Flynn of the flick is a dashing colonel of les paras (Anthony Quinn) who. is presented as a square-jawed Horatio Algeria. He organizes his regiment to fight a brush-fire war, and with the hesitant assistance of an aide de camp (Alain Delon) who falls in love with a rebel belle (Claudia Cardinale), he conducts a brilliant but brutal campaign in the interior. In the end he wins a general's stars but loses his self-respect...
...execute the frescoes for the cathedral in Udine and paint the cycle for the Ca' Dolfin in Venice. Stylistically, Tiepolo was still feeling his way: his warm reds and yellows had not yet dissolved into the icy whites and blues that would dominate his later work; his vigorous brush had yet to master fully the airy elegancies of the rococo. But in all the popular legends of mythology, the classics and Roman history, Tiepolo had found his forte: he was essentially a dramatist...