Word: brushings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...climb like none he had ever experienced before. Often he had to simply plunge forward, dragging himself up through the heavy brush, grabbing on wherever it was possible, plunging in one foot, then swinging the other foot high, and beyond the first. As he climbed, he was scared--scared that he would turn back, that he would turn back and then have to start again or forever carry this failure with him. But all the while he felt his breathing. "I am safe there. I will climb this mountain. I will...
...walls of the waiting room, the workshop, the corridors and even the fitting room. As tailor to more than 100 leading French and Italian artists, Sapone, 56, accepts payment for his clothes in works of art. Says Sapone: "It has been a fruitful exchange between the needle and the brush...
...does omit one American target, however. At one point, Karina sets the theme of the movie by telling the tale of the man who had a brush with death and fled, only to meet it in his flight. Throughout the film, Godard leaves a trail of authors' names: Robert Louis Stevenson, William Faulkner, Jack London, Raymond Chandler. One name he fails to drop is that of the man who made the legend famous by basing a whole novel on it. He is John O'Hara, and his book was Appointment in Samarra...
...resolved to break the mold in which family and education had cast him -not, with paint brush but with pencil -he privately published a book of verse. Then, after a bout as a medical corpsman in the Turkish-Montenegrin skirmish before World War I, and marriage to the sister of an Oxford friend, he served the Empire as an assistant district officer in Nigeria. That Empire in its heyday has been described as a "system of outdoor relief for the upper classes." Cary needed the relief; his money...
...scholars sometimes seem bafflingly mercurial as to just who had a brush in which painting, there is good reason. Every important master in those times-including Jordaens-kept an atelier that employed dozens of apprentices to help execute the large decorative panels that were the order of the day. Even major painters often helped each other on big commissions. Van Dyck and Jordaens worked side by side on the Rubens ceiling pieces for the Jesuit Church in Antwerp. The Jordaens show itself is also a major achievement in assemblage. Paintings were loaned by Queen Elizabeth, President Giuseppe Saragat of Italy...