Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young Negro artist was startling and impressing London gallerygoers last week with a show of paintings as tangled and threatening as the jungles of his home colony, British Guiana. Painted in equatorial reds, yellows and greens, the canvases were packed with figures as sturdy as tree trunks, topped by faces with the wide, open, glowering eyes of frightened animals...
...artist, 27-year-old Denis Williams, was no loincloth primitive. The son of a textile manufacturer, he had gone to high school in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, worked as a postal clerk. Five years ago some of his spare-time paintings caught the eye of a British Council representative, won him an art scholarship in England...
...brown-green of its bottles and the fire-brigade red of its advertising were some kind of protective coloring. In Brazil, it has become part of the language: buses are known as Coca-Colas (because the fare is nearly the price of a Coke); in British Guiana, schoolchildren get a free Coke on Empire Day; in the Middle East, Coke bottles have become accepted missiles with which to punish unjust umpires at soccer games...