Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upstairs-window glimpse he had of her, then aged 55, picking berries in a field outside. But to render it was not easy. For months he painted only the landscape and Christina's own house in the background, finally asked her if he might sketch her, drew her arms and hands. "I was so shy about posing her, I got my wife Betsy to pose for the figure," Wyeth confessed. The painting, finished in 1948, was sold to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art for $2,200, rapidly became the museum's most popular reproduction...
Well-stocked with everything from bitter to brandy, St. Mary's pub initially drew a full house of miniskirted birds and their dates, who demurely sipped pints of beer as they listened to music by a folk-rock group. At 11, when Stacey's bar closed, the youngsters left quietly, happily-and sober. Explaining his odd addition to St. Mary's services, Stacey argued that most of the area's youth clubs have been closed down because of vandalism, and the regularly licensed pubs near the church are "revolting." "All we are trying...
...when she was only 15. She kept winning them every year since, and in the 1964 Olympics, her first taste of international competition, she finished sixth. Since then, she has won two world championships-in 1966 and 1967-largely on the strength of her balletlike grace. At Philadelphia, she drew a standing ovation for her final "spread eagle-double axel-spread eagle" (after coasting along with her feet at a 180° angle, she leaps, turns 21 times around, and lands as she started). Her lowest score from any of the five judges was 5.9 out of a possible...
...great charm and enduring value of the pieces assembled are that they reflect a culture that drew no distinction between major and minor arts. Anything from a horse bit to a box top was seen as an object of beauty, while each bronze affirmed in subtle ways the flavor of its region. Where Sparta reigned, simplicity and self-discipline are powerfully reflected in the lancet-eyed Laconian warrior whose body and thoughts alike are swathed in a foreboding cloak...
...drew concurrent one-year sentences on each of the three counts, and he appealed to the Supreme Court...