Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Italy's Emilio Vedova, 40, whose paintings, said one critic, "look like blackboards beaten with chalk erasers." Vedova uses white splotches on black backgrounds to create a canvas of garish, swirling effects, which he sweepingly titles Image of Time 1959, Tyranny 1960. ¶ Italy's Pietro Consagra, 39, who uses acetylene torches, electric drills, wrenches and vises to turn out large, dugout slabs of metal that look like negative prints of abstract bas-reliefs. Two almost identical pieces bear the titles Colloquy with Wife and Colloquy without Wife; the other nine Consagras are also called Colloquies. (Those...
...compound the calamity, ably assisted by Gaillardia's Prime Minister Amphibulos (Peter Sellers), who embodies everything fine and honest in Balkan politics. Eventually, the U.N. (accompanied by a faint but distinct celestial choir) decides to partition Gaillardia, an act undertaken with marvelous literalness by painting a chalk line down its middle, ruthlessly separating sow from piglet, peasant from privy. To their horror, the British discover that a deposit of Epsom salts in the Russian sector is really cobalt. "D you realize," says CB, ''we could absolutely blow up the entire world? Smashing." The muddling has just begun...
Keables whirs out of his front door every morning at 7:30. Within minutes, he begins spouting poetry as he strides up and down before his students. Soon covered with chalk dust, he pounds and perches on the front seats (kept vacant to give him room). He brooks no interruption. If an office messenger invades the room. Keables cries: "I told you we should have locked the door!" If a daydreaming student stares out the window, Keables peers through his bifocals and thunders: "Get out!" Lanky Harold Raymond Keables, 60, is brimful of a passion to teach literature and composition...
...cutting shears, working with concentrated fury; in spring he customarily collapses in a Stockholm hospital, nurses an imaginary ulcer, and dictates two screen plays in about six weeks. Apart from his film work, Bergman has established himself as the top director of the Swedish stage by a long chalk, was recently named manager of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater. He also finds time to direct dozens of plays for Swedish radio and television-and to live a private life that most men would consider a career in itself. Says a Hollywood admirer: "Bergman is Sweden's Zanuck, Kazan...
...machine gun set up in a general store 200 yards away. Finally, frustrated state police sent an urgent appeal to Governor David Lawrence, who approved use of a Walker bulldog tank manned by National Guardsmen to flush the killer. Rushed in by flatcar, the 25-ton tank lumbered to Chalk Hill, circled the bullet-pocked bungalow as police fired from the cover...