Word: delight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Excellent Thing." Although the Enquirer had just chalked up its most prosperous year (with net earnings of $1,430,324), and is headed for an even better one. Staab decided to go ahead, saying: "You do not take corrective action after the fact." He expressed delight at Proudfoot's results. "Our studies showed a pool of people not all of whom were busy all the time." Survivors will certainly be busier than before-if only in filling out the new work forms on which staffers must make a daily account for every minute of their time. Down in classified...
Perhaps only in the U.S. would someone have conceived of repeating the gates to heaven. Yet, shining in their new cathedral portals, the doors also double Ghiberti's chance to survive, astonish and delight his viewers as freshly as he did in Florence five centuries...
...what it seems. They are, in fact, cast-bronze facsimiles of ale cans, one slightly smaller than the other. One is punched open and empty; the other is closed and solid bronze. Their labels are handpainted, and when lifted off their base, they provide a hefty gravitational surprise. They delight Johns pre cisely because they are false twins, an unequal equation, in short, a paradox...
...task, and for Johns the act of metamorphosis is full of magic. He says: "I am concerned with a thing not being what it was, with its becoming something else, with any moment in which one identifies a thing precisely, and with the slipping away of that moment." Saucy Delight. At first even a lunge at art seemed unlikely for Johns. He grew up in Allendale, S.C., and spent a short year and a half at the state university, where the lanky, laugh-prone Southerner got a smattering of art studies. But as an artist, Johns was largely self-taught...
...game of perspective; his interest is in the surface of the canvas and in putting instantly recognizable symbols through rigorous permutations. He slathers and slurries his images with a random, painterly stroke reminiscent of the abstract expressionists. He rubs sterile graphic images in an artist's saucy delight of texture...