Word: canvases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It was soon clear, however, that after months of waiting, anxious New York citizens and soldiery faced more waiting still. As the British fleet came on, the lead ships, instead of continuing north for a quick assault on Manhattan, turned toward Staten Island. Clouds of canvas blossomed in the lower...
There are some admirable aspects to "The Golden Door." It begins jauntily with paintings by cubists and futurists, like Joseph Stella who arrived from Naples in 1896. He visited Europe more than a decade later and returned excited by Cezanne, the Fauvists and everything modern. During the three-year absence...
Tired Tiger. For three hours, the bizarrely assorted crew sweated and struggled to raise the 17,508 sq. ft. of brilliant orange canvas in time for the evening's performance. All the while, a small, bearded figure zipped frantically through the melee, hauling on ropes, testing wires and worrying...
Circus Vargas' big tent, glowing in the night like an amber mountain, is a cheerful atavism, a reminder of a time when Americans huddled happily on benches under canvas, eating cotton candy and peanuts and staring at the marvels occurring in the three rings before them. Now the Ringling...
The student porter is guilty of being ungrateful. He had hoped for the mail truck job, riding the range with Joe Perlatonda, leaping at high speed from a silver chariot with canvas bags slung over his shoulder, delivering mail all over campus. The romance of speed and the far-flung...