Word: hand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catching the play of sunlight over the gay dresses of his models and the boaters of his friends. Degas, with a draftsman's colder eye, made the backstage world of ballet dancers and the artificial world of footlights into a private universe. Pissarro, who conscientiously tried his hand at each new style, set his easel up in the French countryside, gave even the meanest farm a nobility and poetry. Van Gogh took the same subject, extended his sensibilities to achieve a kind of ecstatic identification with the countryside's own windswept rhythms...
...hottest form of advertising promotion is the giveaway. This year U.S. businesses will hand out $16 million worth of appliances, cars, cameras and bric-a-brac on 22 network shows seen by most of the nation's 43 million TV homes, and 250 local radio and TV programs. So popular are the shows that this week CBS and NBC each will add three new TV giveaway programs. NBC and ABC will start two more later in July...
...They fashioned pens out of metal fragments and mixed blood and coffee grounds for ink. By pooling their memories, they produced portions of Ovid, Catullus, Vergil, Shakespeare and Whitman in the original Latin and English, then translated them into Hungarian. In the end, the Vac prisoners produced a handwritten, hand-bound, four-volume anthology of prose and verse...
...Discovered some time between 1909 and 1912, the "lost journal" did not find its way into the pine box (now part of the Pierpont Morgan Library) until 1956. Though it clarified nothing of Thoreau's love life, it did at least strengthen the claim that his precise, craftsmanlike hand had fashioned the box, for the 39 notebooks made a snugly perfect...
...Lord Nelson is the name given in Royal Navy wardrooms to a poker hand containing three Jacks. In the British tradition of understatement, this may or may not bear reference to the fact that Horatio, Lord Nelson, was a man with one eye, one arm and one idea-to beat the French. The latest and one of the best of the great sailor's biographies logs in scholarly detail the main tacks of a gusty life that carried him to the top of the column in London's Trafalgar Square-not to mention the Nelson monument in Dublin...