Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lance line and harshly assailed Percy: "On September 9, Senator Percy gave every indication that Lance was a tax fraud cheat, and in his mellifluous tones he said well, you know, I am not saying directly that you are a tax cheat, I am saying inferences can be drawn therefrom. Yesterday, Senator Percy said, 'I apologize for any anguish I may have caused you over the weekend.' Marvelous! We're playing with a man's character and his decency and reputation here. The charge of being a tax fraud will linger around Mr. Lance...
They cannot see Bert Lance as having violated their code, if not the law. They cannot perceive that their insistence erodes trust, hurting the presidency and thus the nation. They have drawn the wagons in a circle and have so far placed Carter's pride and the feelings of their old friend Bert before the good of the country. It is selfishness and arrogance of a sort. In a sound presidency, there is only one final measure of action: Is it in the national interest? Bert Lance no longer is because he played too loose with money...
...proposed construction has drawn fire from many residents of Arlington, who argued that the new subway stops would attract commercial developers who would in turn disrupt neighboring areas with large shopping and hotel complexes...
Dunn later described the painstaking work that went into fashioning the links, saying: "Except for several horse-drawn roadscrapers all the work was done by hand. The fairways were cleaned off and the natural grass left in. The rough was very rough with clothes-ripping blueberry bushes, large boulders and many small gullies. The place was dotted with Indian burial mounds and many sandtraps...
...that a pencil or brush can express and the kind of incisive force that the bite of his scissors gave to Matisse's later image of a figure in ecstatic movement, La Danseuse, 1949. The directness of such a cut-out could not be repeated in paint. No drawn profile could approach the strictness of a cut edge, and the paper has its own density as palpable substance-which accounts for the peculiarly sculptural look of some of Matisse's blue cut-outs of nudes, such as the Woman with Amphora and Pomegranates...