Word: burlap
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...later piece, "Light, Dry Poem" (1938), exemplifies Klee's experiments with color and texture. On burlap, black lines surround pastel shapes. The place seems to be Klee's expression of his belief that "art does not render the visible; rather it makes visible...
...accelerated, doubling the $1 trillion debt that he deplored, then doubling it again. Reagan's 67-mile-high stack of $1,000 bills, Clinton said, now reached up 267 miles. By the end of his speech, Clinton had grabbed hold of all that Reagan professed, wrapped it in burlap and cast it aside...
...correct; they die quickly. A man with a gimpy leg, evidently the center's undertaker, expertly wraps these two bodies and four others -- the day's dead -- in rags and burlap sacks discarded from rations that came too late. He puts the bundles into a blue wheelbarrow, wheels them out of the compound and down to the banks of the Juba, where they are lowered together into an open grave...
...iconic power and brilliantly felt color of the earlier work. By 1946, for all intents, Johnson's life as an artist was over. He made a return trip to Denmark but sank into insanity in Copenhagen, where the police picked him up as a grimy street bum lugging burlap sacks of his own -- to them, weird-looking -- paintings...
...placid town of Janesville, Wis. (est. pop. 52,000), never asked for a Ku Klux Klan rally. But the Klan considered the town, perched on the Rock River, ripe for recruits. So there in the middle of Rockport Park stood a massive burlap-wrapped, kerosene-soaked cross surrounded by Klansmen, and even a few Klanswomen, their robes billowing in the soft breeze. The loud twang of country music mixed with the angry chants of protesters jousting with police a few hundred yards away: "Death to the Klan...