Word: lemons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officially estimated to be bedridden; the blight spread to Yugoslavia and Switzerland, Austria and West Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The Germans' word of the week was Grip-pewelle (flu wave), and Chancellor Willy Brandt went to Tunisia to recuperate from his bout. The Viennese, devoted to hot lemon drinks as a palliative, bid up the price of lemons from their midwinter norm of seven schillings (28?) for ten lemons, to 20 schillings...
...white gesso base. He drew his composition on the gesso in gray chalk. That done, he would start painting in egg tempera, thinly and swiftly. His first layers of color, though, often bore no overt relation to the effect in his mind. Ice, for example, might be lemon-yellow at the start. Blue oil glazes floated over it would freeze the ice to green. And after that, translucent gray watercolor touches, softly laid, would set the ice flat in its fields of snow...
Strangely, he is not all that anxious to move into other fields. "I'm going to concentrate on these people I'm doing." Besides, "I'd like to squeeze the lemon now." Which is exactly what he's doing. Estimates are that he'll make upwards of $250,000 in 1970. Not that Frye intends to rest on his repertory, though: "Attorney General and Mrs. Mitchell will be on the next album." Make no mistake about that...