Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bagdad" is an ordinary American western in disguise. The cavalry and the gangsters are there all right, only they are fitted out in flowing robes instead of gray serge, carry swords instead of pistols, smoke aguilas instead of cigarettes, and quote from the Koran whenever a cowboy might toss off a handy cliche...
...Horseman is Here Again" and "Christ in a Gas Mask," have much of the quality of Durer's woodcuts. Later watercolors, however, are pure reflections of his own creativeness. These paintings, dating from 1946 to the present, repeatedly picture a twisted, angular, skeleton-like creature whom Grosz calls "the Gray Man." Other recurring symbols are an artist's canvas with a hole torn in its center, and a rainbow-colored flag torn from its staff. The series of water-colors, with its fantastic, degraded monsters and burning luminosity of color, is like a ghastly comic strip...
Spender was here in 1949 to give a Morris Gray Poetry Reading. Last summer he spoke at the Goethe Bicentennial at Aspen, Colorado...
...flashed a driver's license to prove he was 24. He ordered up a couple of beers while the jukebox was grinding out Jealous Heart, danced about, began fooling around the shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right behind bar) told him to clear out. Trying to scare Granillo, Gray pretended to call the cops. "He started coming toward me," said Gray. "He started calling me a lotta names. I got rattled." From behind the bar he grabbed a pistol, shot and killed Eugene Granillo. Police...
...secretary are Jeannette Beatty, Jean Berko, Ethel Bronstein, Julie Paxton, and Gracia Taketa; for treasurer, Nina Boheln, Elizabeth Gray, Marianne Rudolf, and Constance Smith; and for council representative, Vicki Blass, Carol Cummings, Dele Gilmore, Anne Friedrich, Judith Herrick, Nancy Jenny, Pat Kook, Marie-Beth Walsh, Jane Whitehill, and Lois Williams