Word: canvasful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perception is reality. It has long been an axiom for soldiers. "All warfare is based on deception," said Sun Tzu, the great 4th century B.C. Chinese strategist whose prize pupil turned out to be Mao Tse-tung. The Greeks understood that principle when they set sail from Troy, leaving behind...
The basic shapes that make up the Elegies, held between bars or strung like meat on a skewer across the canvas, could hardly be simpler: black ovals or ragged beam-shaped forms that bear a resemblance to bullfighters' hats, black frames that evoke the deep shadow of doors in...
His paint brush is his feet, his canvas is the playing field, and his technique is that of a master. Vignali uses his head to make up for his lack of bulk.
It looked like the finale of an old-fashioned Fourth of July celebration in The Bronx's Yankee Stadium one night last week. The murky sky was suddenly illuminated with scores & scores of blinding flashes of light as photographers frantically tried to get a whole evening's work...
It was all over in 124 seconds. Most of the 70,000 spectators, some of whom paid as much as $125 for a seat, were as bewildered as the challenger. Men who were lighting their pipes missed the whole thing. By the time those in the rear rows had jumped...