Word: canvasful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than 11,000 bbl. of crude oil. But when the breeze comes up, a microcomputer unfurls a pair of rectangular canvas sails and aligns them to the wind. Stretched tight by rigid metal frames, the 40-ft. by 26-ft. sails resemble windmill paddles more than the billowing canvases of a windjammer. Yet the sails enable this 20th century clipper to move at speeds of up to twelve knots under wind power...
The popular conception of Bowie's parabolic musical career, even on the part of sympathetic critics, has been tinged with some of this Victorian opprobrium: Bowie the musical chameleon, the masquer, just doesn't seem to have the stamina to stick to one style and wring out its musical worth...
In fact, contact with Europe was of immense importance to this strictly raised, diffident, beanpole son of a dry-goods storekeeper from Nyack, N.Y. Paris formed his work and gave him the confidence to deal with his specifically American motifs. By no stretch of the imagination could Hopper be called...
Interest rates, which have been creeping up in recent weeks, are likely to continue rising, as the Federal Reserve attempts to remain within its 4% to 6½% annual growth target for money. Thus just as the economy appears to be getting up off the canvas, these higher interest rates...
That vitality is there, written across the canvas with enormous chromatic zest, in William Glackens' Breezy Day, Tugboats, New York Harbor, circa 1910. But in Glackens' cheerfully slathered impasto, the sky streaked with cat's paws of pink and the puffs of whistle steam stitched across the...