Word: californianism
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...armed forces for some militarily useful items. He scribbled "F you!" across the order form and returned it to the Syrian embassy in Washington. A few days later, a puzzled military attache called the dealer, inquiring why he had so brusquely refused the order. "I'm Jewish," explained the Californian. "What's that got to do with it?" asked the Arab. "This is business...
Stop! Enough! The other area of some promise is so-called photorealism. Robert Mann, a Californian whose paintings are on view at the Staempfli Gallery, has studied vintage photographs but does not refer to them when he paints. His aim is to recapture an era and a place: rural Ontario, where he grew up. The people are "a memory-they've floated back into this situation one more time." Their slightly stylized figures produce a kind of stage-front scrim against a photographic backdrop. The results have a peculiar authority, as hard to account for as it is easy...
With pigskin in hand, the 6 ft.-2 in. Californian is cool and smooth. With a telephone cord nervously wrapped between his knockwurst sized fingers, the high cheekbones, battered nose, and crack between the front teeth express discomfort and tension...
Restic said that as far as he knows, McInally, a native Californian, is partial to playing in the East-West Shrine Game held in San Francisco in December...
Jean-Pierre Berlan is with the Institut-National de la Recherche Agronomique in Paris, and was a research fellow at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley. He is working on a book on Californian agriculture...