Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The weekend in New Orleans was billed as a super sports spectacular. When all the drumbeating and body crunching were over, however, the result was a pair of super slaughters. First, Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier bludgeoned Challenger Terry Daniels to the canvas five times before the referee mercifully ended the...
Two Female Models on Apache Rug is painted with a kind of weighty probity that Courbet would have approved. Nothing is fudged or romanticized; all the attention is focused on an absolute truth of contour, the precise sensation of bunched, knotted or slack muscle, the laconic interplay between the cold...
Peckinpah could have made a great film if he worked as broad a canvas as he's used to. He clearly feels that both the church and an amorphous state represent attempts only at making problems more palatable. Their representatives here are a noxious minister and an ineffectual sheriff, both...
Joan Miro plays with curves and lines more as writing than as contours of space, but his calligraphy does not deny the spatial qualities of linear forms. His Woman In the Night provides the viewer with the sensation of being watched by a three-eyed, large-footed smiling female form...
When a couple of heavyweights get together, something's got to give. In Houston, it was Phyllis Diller as well as Buster Mathis who landed on the canvas -though ex-Champ Muhammad Ali hardly seemed to notice. He might have been expected to express a little gratitude. Even flat...