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Word: canvases (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The Twelfth parade has always been a sensitive flashpoint, especially in the sections of town where it passes by the Catholic community--like Unity Flat, at the entrance to the Protestant stronghold of Shankhill road. This year these sections were blocked off with large canvas screens. There were some stone...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: Britain, Orangeism: Pieces of the Ulster Puzzle | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

But where Cambridge Convention '75 could very well have its greatest impact on the elections is by providing crucial political services. The lobby is planning to compile lists of newly registered voters, canvas 50 per cent of the city's houses, and effectively cover all 55 polling places on election...

Author: By Thomas W. Janes, | Title: The Cambridge Reformers Are at It Again | 9/15/1975 | See Source »

Scott is very much a psychological novelist, and the great length of his work (2,000 pages) is not a matter of kilometers of canvas and barrels of paint. The final important scene of this last book is typical and illustrates the point. It is 1947, and the British are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parade's End | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

He moved back to England, first to London and then, with his American wife Betsy, to a farm in Wiltshire, where his gardening activities soon included a giant dovecot built hi the form of an Egyptian pyramid. The shapes of his pictures, meanwhile, were becoming more geometric as the Pop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stretched Skin | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

Yellow Pages. Since 1972 Smith has been working on a different kind of surface: paintings like canvas kites, stretched on rods, hung on strings and ribbons from the wall or slung, like Yellow Pages (1975), from the roof. They are as light, demountable and unpretentious as toys or banners. "I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stretched Skin | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

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