Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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As NetEdge founder Bender prepares to take his company public, he disavows any interest in the complicated stock-market gymnastics that lead to instant wealth. "An IPO is not an end in itself," he declares. "It's a vehicle to finance growth, not to make investors rich. That happens too...
According to the event program, a Memorial Hall dinner in the early 1900s included mock turtle soup, fried codfish and pork scraps, Welsh rarebit, stewed kidneys in wine sauce, canvas back ducks, lamb tongues and canned corn, with mince pie for dessert.
The paintings tend to be objects: thick wooden boards, never canvas, and heavily framed. The paint is constantly reworked--not fiddled with, but glazed and obliterated over the years by successive coats. Each is a palimpsest, one improvisation partly burying another but leaving hints of it behind. Pigment covers the...
This weekend, College Democrats plan to go up to New Hampshire to canvas for the President's renomination. Hopefully, when they stand in the doorway of New Hampshire voters they will offer a more compelling reason to vote for Bill Clinton than the fact that he has his finger in...
Smith, of course, could not keep pure of all such influences, and his missteps are on display at the exhibit as well. While billed as "explorations of form, color, shape and mass," his paintings and small assemblages convey little original thought. "Relief with Bones" is a particular disaster-- constructed of...