Word: gooey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just after Howell got busy with his planes and generators, New York began having a miserable spring and early summer of warm rains, cold drizzles and sticky fogs. In the Catskills it rained and rained. The important sweet corn crop was badly damaged; weeds grew high in fields too. gooey to cultivate. Farmers threatened to shoot Howell; so did resort owners. "Look," said Julius Slutsky, a proprietor of the upstate Nevele Hotel (which tried to sue New York City), "our guests come from New York City. They don't know much about the country. They say, 'They...
...days of rain had made an "off track" certain for the 74th running of Pimlico's Preakness last week. That suited Trainer Casey Hayes fine; his Hill Prince, runner-up to Middleground in the Kentucky Derby, revels in gooey going. Middleground's trainer, canny Max Hirsch, was not so happy: "My horse is very definitely suited to a fast track. I believe he can run in sticky going, but I am not sure." With an eye on the weather, Hirsch waited until the morning of the race to have his horse shod with mud caulks...
...McNeil, 40, starts with a still life "as a point of departure. Then almost immediately I see through the object into movements of form and color which create space. I call my paintings 'Space Impelled.' " Clearly McNeil's impulse was to churn space up into something gooey and gay. It took tubefuls of loud color, and a good deal Of single-minded thrashing and splashing, but he managed...