Word: canvasful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baby oil covered the wooden floor, a flood of Johnson's seeping out from behind the mudgreen canvas curtain. This hall, on the seen better-days grounds of Exposition Park in Springfield, usually hosts the sort of "family fun" that draws disposable income to amusement parks--four-piece combos that...
The mess boy had started them already, lifting the bottles out of the canvas cooling bags that sweated wet in the wind that blew through the trees that shaded the tent.
But Little Johnnie did some fast growing up. He channelled his anger into two crushing serves-two quick points, and the score was suddenly deuce. Twice more in the same game Borg reached set point. Twice more McEnroe drove him to the canvas backdrop with twisting, slicing serves. He won...
In this drama, life is a prize ring without winners. Survival is all. The characters hit the canvas, but they never stay down for the count. Their heads are bloodied, but there is a salty irrepressible humor on their lips. In sum, A Taste of Honey is a profile in...
Roy Lichtenstein was always the most cerebral of the Pop artists. Yet his images in the 1960s, taken from comic strips and ads-"I know how you must feel, Brad!" whispers the enormous girl's mouth to its exclusively art-world audience-were once rebuked for their dumbness, their...