Word: gray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another %*& !! MiG crossed my nose, and I lost my cool. I fired an AIM-9M Sidewinder, and the MiG disappeared in a satisfying cloud of gray- black smoke. The explosion, though, caught the attention of hostile aircraft up and down the coast. Soon the warning lights on my display panel were lighted up like a pinball machine. I was able to evade an incoming AA-10 Alamo missile by releasing a burst of radar-deflecting chaff, and I fooled an SA-10 surface-to-air missile by sending out a decoy drone. But all the electronic countermeasures in the world...
Kossoff is, above all, a painter obsessed with oily stuff. His paint is thick without being rhetorical. The surface develops by addition, sometimes over months, and contains an extraordinary range of nuances both in color and in texture: tremulous depths of pinkish-gray held within the sallow planes of a face, innumerable gradations of Venetian red and salmon pink in the body of a nude, rescued from mere allusiveness by the vehement drawing of shadow that gives Kossoff's work its tonal framework. Its solidity is relieved, almost involuntarily, by the whipping of skeins of pigment fallen directly from...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...
...Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Tam Martinides Gray, Rodman Griffin, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, JoAnn Lum, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Jeannie Park, Michael Quinn, Theodore P. Roth, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young...
SENIOR WRITERS: David Brand, Tom Callahan, Margaret Carlson, George J. Church, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Walter Shapiro, R. Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...