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...impresario of the 1,800-seat Queen's Theater, "and they don't mind it good and vulgar. If you don't like someone here, you don't give him subtle insults; you say: 'I'll slap thee in the bloody girt gob...
...girt" read "big"; for "gob" read "mouth...
Because most of them are still wet, the pictures in Appel's latest Amsterdam show hang high out of reach of inquiring fingers. To demonstrate their wetness last week, the museum curator, who admires the artist, thrust one thumb into an inch-thick gob of red. "Appel doesn't mind," he reassured his visitor, smiling...
...raised humbly in Boston. Bloom was introduced to painting in a settlement house, continued it on the WPA and gained fame in the early '40s. His first important canvases showed the influence of the European expressionists Chaim Soutine and Oskar Kokoshka. He applied their color-by-the-gob technique to molten-seeming canvases of rabbis, chandeliers, brides, Christmas trees, buried treasure and, finally, corpses. At 40, Bloom exercises a control of his medium as elaborate, and theatrical, as Caravaggio's. His steady gain in dexterity is offset by a restriction of range: for a full decade now, Bloom...
...Eniwetok, the test tower rising above the surrounding sea. and, in views of vast test devices, evidence of the enormous toil and expense necessary to prepare for the explosion. The camera (from 50 miles off) showed the mushroom cloud rising through menacing black skies like a great, poisonous-looking gob of whipped cream...