Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Braden's indoor classrooms have enough electronic TV gadgetry, cameras, screens, replay devices and tapes to make the average TV newsroom look medieval. When his students are not having balls shot at them or stroking backhands into canvas practice funnels set up like spokes on a wheel, they listen to...
There were other emblems of modernity too. The birch-and-canvas aircraft that look to us like trembling old dragonflies but were the Concordes of their time seldom became a painter's subject: Delaunay made them so with Homage to Blériot, 1913-14. It is a marvelously...
Died. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 91, a founder of the German expressionist school of painting; in West Berlin. In 1905 Schmidt-Rottluff joined with several other rebelling art students to form a group known as die Brticke (the Bridge) and to search for an art form and sensibility to replace impressionism...
A tent is a "collapsible shelter of canvas or other material stretched and sustained by poles." So says Webster's and so most people believe. Bill Moss has a broader concept. He knows that there are A-frames and O-domes and poly-domes, pup tents and pop tents...
What camping cognoscenti like most about Moss's "creations" is that they are light, easily assembled-and do not leak. They are also extremely sturdy, deriving much of their strength from their curved surfaces-instead of from the traditional poles and tautly stretched staked-in ropes. For those hardy...