Word: hurd
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...technician whose work depends on what movies are being filmed in the area, shopping around his newly earned sheep-shearing skills might just be a way to supplement his income, and return to his family's rural roots. His grandfather was the ranch foreman for the western artist Peter Hurd in southern New Mexico's Hondo Valley and even appears in some of his pastoral paintings. Herrera's classmates included NMSU undergraduate and graduate students, some of whom considered sheep shearing an important part of their studies. "I'm doing a graduate project with sheep and I thought this would...
...looks like he's in a battle," says Painter Peter Hurd, his brother-in-law. "He stabs at the work as if with a stiletto, dabbing with a bit of Kleenex, slashing with a razor blade." The water-colors materialize by the hundreds, spattery with a bravura immediacy...
...White Company. Quite naturally, the dynasty flourished. The eldest, Henriette, a painter in her own right, is married to Painter Hurd. Most eccentric of the children is Carolyn, now 54, who gallivants about in a flat black Gaucho hat, paints and teaches art classes. Sister Ann, 48, turned to music, but married one of N.C.'s students, John McCoy, and stayed on in Chadds Ford. Brother Nathaniel, 52, "drew neat little pictures inside little squares," married a niece of Howard Pyle, and quite naturally became a creative engineer in research for Du Pont in nearby Wilmington...
...Thanksgiving, the clan gathers until there are often 20 at table. Betsy cooks up a storm straight out of the Gourmet Cookbook, and-though she might still chill them-there are vintage French burgundies to add some thunder. A frequent visitor over the years is Brother-in-Law Hurd, a New Mexico painter of Western landscapes, who years ago taught Wyeth how to paint with tempera. Together, though, they are more apt to top each other's tall tales than talk...
...again, would you have left Saturday Night Live after only one year? -Steve Hurd, Oakland, Calif...