Word: drew
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...seemed that St. Cecilia had indeed come down to bless this performance, for the Collegium Musicum performed the work brilliantly. They achieved an excellent blending of voice parts: the sopranos in particular soared beautifully over the rest, with soprano soloist Tonia D'Amelio '00 a particular standout. DeFotis drew an incredible dynamic range from the group, especially impressive in the piannissimo sections...
Ellison devoted a substantial part of his speech to ranting against Microsoft Corp.--"that company in Redmond"--displaying vitriol that drew laughter and applause from the crowd...
Charged with finding ways to reduce college costs, the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education has postponed the release of its final report after preliminary drafts drew criticism from the Republican legislators who appointed the commission...
Rick Bass drew good reviews in 1992 with The Ninemile Wolves, a moody nonfiction report of a Canadian wolf pack that crossed the U.S. border a few years ago and colonized one of the western states. But Bass's fiction (The Book of Yaak, In the Loyal Mountains) seems to get categorized as good-with-an-asterisk. He's regional. (So was Wallace Stegner, of course, until he became a national monument.) Bass may reach monument or even wilderness-area status in time, but for the moment he gathers honorable obscurity, and blackflies, on the shelf reserved for nature writers...
...precondition of his structure, in turn, was drawing. Diebenkorn drew incessantly. It wasn't only that he belonged to the last generation of American artists to be raised in a culture of drawing. He loved the act. Drawing was sifting the world's disorder. It was making sense of random agglomerations of things, unconscious postures of the body. (In all his drawings and paintings of his wife Phyllis, you only rarely get the sense that she was actually posing.) Every painter has favorite shapes and gestures, which, unless they encounter some resistance, can turn into mannerisms. Diebenkorn's style certainly...