Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watercolor, in the 18th and 19th centuries, was known on the Continent as the "English style"-a bow to the fact that though artists in many lands used the medium, none used it with greater enthusiasm than the painters of England. This month the National Gallery in Washington opens an exhibition of 200 English drawings and watercolors from the Mellon collection and from twelve British museums and the Queen's private collection (see color). There will be few shows in 1962 more pleasing...
...latest in a series of bloody episodes that have marked a twelve-week strike by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters against Alabama's Bowman Transportation Co., a medium-sized trucking concern. Turning down the union's demands on wages and working conditions, the firm hired non-Teamster drivers. Since then, Bowman trucks have been shot at more than 70 times in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina; four drivers besides Warren have been wounded. More than 20 trucks have been fired at while laboring up a steep grade on U.S. Highway 278 near Piedmont...
Beyond Chivalry. Brassy Sarah McClendon did not begin calling attention to herself by needling Presidents until Dwight Eisenhower, by opening the presidential press conference to direct quotation and requiring reporters to identify themselves, gave her an irresistible chance for self-promotion. After the conference moved into the big audience medium of TV, Sarah found her true métier...
...Long-Range Navigation) can give a navigator an accurate, medium-range fix. But despite the promise of its name, LORAN does not reach dependably to the middle of the Atlantic, and strong "atmospherics" (static) can put it out of action...
...thus, just as Gutenberg fathered the great industry of printing from type, Senefelder gave the world the basic process widely used in offset printing (though now usually from zinc plates rather than stone). But beyond its commercial uses, the lithograph has been especially dear to the artist. Through this medium, he can spread his message wide and yet know that no matter how many copies are made, each lithograph will retain his personal touch...