Word: fooled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...encouraged among his followers: that there can be no honest differences of opinion with him. Either you must follow Senator McCarthy blindly, not daring to express any doubts or disagreements about any of his actions, or, in his eyes, you must be a Communist, a Communist sympathizer, or a fool who has been duped by the Communist line." Bush defended Censure Committee Chairman Arthur Watkins from the abuse suffered at Joe's hands. Said he: "Mr. President, if I have ever met a brave and noble Senator, Arthur Watkins is that man. And, Mr. President, I for one will...
...still lifes were the work of the university's artist in residence, Aaron Bohrod. With them Artist Bohrod, 47, emerges as one of the foremost exponents of Trompe-l'Oeil (fool-the-eye) painting in the U.S. since the 19th century...
William Michael Harnett. Trompe-l'Oeil is an off-beat school of art that goes back to the legendary Greek, Zeuxis, who was said to have painted grapes so realistically that birds swooped down to peck at them. Roman and Pompeian decorators used fool-the-eye murals to give the illusion of spaciousness to narrow rooms. By the 17th and 18th centuries, the technique had turned into a whimsical exercise in craftsmanship, and it still enchants many realistic painters throughout the world...
Bohrod's most prized ($4,500) fool-the-eye painting in the Madison exhibit is Still Life with Portraits, a weathered door hung with a worn horseshoe, a bugle, an ancient pistol and pictures of Lincoln, Sarah Bernhardt and Henry Clay. Another achieves part of its realism because it was done in collaboration with his seven-year-old son, Neil. Against the usual wooden background, it shows a leaky water pistol, Halloween masks, a torn piece of a newspaper photo and a child's slate. On the slate is a drawing of a witch-by Neil...
...MacKinney suffered a leg injury, making him a doubtful participant in the Yale contest. The trainers at Dillon worked overtime to enable him to play, but he appeared in New Haven on crutches the day before the game. The crutches were a clever device of Coach Dick Harlow to fool Yale, however, for MacKinney was physically fit and instrumental in the 28-0 rout of the Elis...