Word: helens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Abner, the hero of Al Capp's comic strip, worked as a mattress tester, sleeping away his hours on the job. This soft life is not for Helen and Robert Yurs of Sycamore, Ill., who operate Rayco Engineering, probably the only consulting service that makes house calls to test bedding for structural defects...
...intensity of color, inspired by Matisse. At the end of the purge you would have a clipped but radiant discourse of pure hue, fixed by an exaggerated pictorial flatness, done in thinned translucent washes that became the surface. Louis' direct inspiration for this was an early canvas by Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Sea, 1952, whose liquid blotches and airy sense of light struck him, in one of the few quotable phrases he left behind, as a "bridge between Pollock and what was possible...
Thus emerged the chief form of American museum art in the early '60s: The Watercolor That Ate the Art World. Of course, one could hardly come right out with it and say the works of Helen Frankenthaler, Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis (quite apart from the thousands of yards of lyric acrylic on unprimed duck done by their many forgotten imitators) were basically huge watercolors. But there was little in the soak-stain methods of color-field painting that did not seek and repeat watercolor effects. The big difference lay in the size, the curtness and (sometimes) the grandeur...
...Kennedy family wrapped up election day with one out of two seated in Congress. The candidate's younger sister, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, lost a stiff race last night against incumbent Republican Helen Bentley in Maryland...
...Eric Ambler, or perhaps Helen MacInnes? No matter: either mystery writer could have written the script for last week's intense negotiations to free U.S. News & World Report Correspondent Nicholas Daniloff, accused by the Soviets of being an American spy. There were plot twists: unscheduled diplomatic meetings and a nighttime passage through a delivery entrance at the U.S. mission to the U.N. There was George Shultz in the Soviet mission and Eduard Shevardnadze at the U.S. headquarters. There was maddeningly incomplete information. From Shultz: "It's under discussion. It isn't settled yet." From Shevardnadze...