Word: fingernail
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...work, which requires up to a year for one finished painting, it has a more than hallucinatory quality. "I want the thinnest, most ethereal possible paint film, with colors built by superimposing one color over another so that there's almost nothing there-you could take your fingernail and scratch it off," says Close. "It is rather like magic. When I get to the last color, yellow, you can't see the pigment come out of the air brush-it's like waving a magic wand in front of the picture, and the purple eye becomes brown...
...early '20s are painfully bad, academic cubism-as awkward, in their way, as the cubist paintings of another great ideas man of our time, Marcel Duchamp. Magritte had a poor sense of color, and his drawing was mere tracing; the paint surface is as dead as an old fingernail...
...cheeks were red and twitching, he was so mad. Finally, he came towards Hoffa screaming, 'If you don't get out of my shit and back off of me, you'll end up like Castellito! They won't find so much as a fingernail of yours!' Jimmy yelled, 'Bullshit!' and that's when I broke them...
...from Second Baseman Bill Madlock, a Dodger nemesis (he has a .342 career average against Los Angeles). The fourth game went into extra innings. The Giants stayed alive on a hit by aging Superstar Willie McCovey, indestructible and still explosive at 40, and carried to victory and a renewed fingernail grip on first place by a brand new hero, 22-year-old Born-Again Christian Rightfielder Jack Clark. Said Clark, after singling home the winning run in the eleventh inning: "This was to prove to the Dodgers and the rest of the league that we're for real...
...exhibition includes several famous works: "Equinoxe," the 1968 "Le Grand Sorcier," "Le Penseir Puisant," and two comparatively recent pieces, "Maja Negra" and "Le Sarrazin a I'Eoile Bleu," where Miro has added details by scratching into the paper with his fingernail, exposing the paper...