Word: inge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regardless of how much experience a man claims to have had, Murphy said, the paint-crew foreman classifies him on the basis of an interview and by observ-ing his painting skills. To be classified as a journeyman, a painter must have mastered color-mixing, staining, graining, and other essential painting techniques...
...itself, but it holds a strange hope, a sense of excitement-and some terror-for Americans. As most of them see it, the good, godless, gregarious pursuit of pleasure is what California is all about. The citizens of lotusland seem forever to be lolling around swimming pools, sautéing in the sun, packing across the Sierra, frolicking nude on the beaches, getting taller each year, plucking money off the trees, romping around topless, tramping through the redwoods and-when they stop to catch their breath-preening themselves on-camera before the rest of an envious world. "I have seen...
...shaft upon another in marvels of cliff-hanger balance. Later artists like Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland and Frank Stella solidified and emboldened color and clipped its ragged edges, while Morris Louis thinned his paints to the consistency of water and sent them streaming over unprimed canvas in free-flow ing rainbows. Within silent, seemingly impenetrable monochromes, Ad Reinhardt discovered an invisible world...
...LONG-WINDED LADY by Maeve Brennan. 238 pages. Morrow. $6. Collected from The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section, these bleak reportorial vignettes of life in Manhattan create the impression of a raw private perception struggling against total loneliness: the great city observed by a see-ing...
...YEARS AGO, when I was just about out of high school, a lot of girls I knew were ooh-ing and ah-ing about a song called "Born Free". It was a wretched little song, from a wretched little movie of the same title, and, when I finally graduated, my biggest thrill was the realization that I would probably never be forced to listen to it again...