Word: canvasful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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K. Philip Hwang, 47, founder of TeleVideo Systems, a maker of computers and computer terminals. At twelve, Hwang was smuggled from North Korea to South Korea by U.S. troops under some maps and canvas in an Army truck. After arriving in the U.S., he paid his way through college working...
Early one morning in October 1969, outside the Oratorio of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily, the chapel's caretaker watched in bewilderment as a cat scuttled into the sanctuary through a wide-open door. The building should have been secured against felines, and thieves as well. During the previous...
He rejected hard-and-fast distinctions between painting and poetry. He loved words. PHOTO, announces the writing on a 1925 canvas that, being mostly blank, is clearly not a photograph; and then, around a shapeless blob of blue pigment, the wiry script declares that "this is the color of my...
"After painting action scenes I have ached for hours because of having put myself in the other fellow's shoes as I realized him on canvas." The other fellow in this case was Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (Scribners; $17.95), and the artist was N.C. Wyeth, whose paintings gave...
In addition to 800 prisoners now housed in the large wood-and-canvas tents, 350 are doubled up in 11-ft. by 4½-ft. cells designed for one person. The prison, which has a rated capacity of 2,700, is so overcrowded that Warden Reginald Pulley has confined many...