Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LANSNER-Kornblee, 58 East 79th. Though she considers her pastels mere preludes to the large oils so fashionable today, the artist is plainly a master, through her own swift stroke, of the chalky medium. When her female figures are multiplied in oils and blown up into 10-ft. canvases, they are stripped of intimacy, become stiff and frigid strangers lost in a roomful of mirrors. Through...
...print collection. Choice are a red chalk drawing, Prudence, by the Dutch Master Engraver Goltzius; Rembrandt's masterly little etching, Landscape with a Man Sketching (circa 1645); and a rare Goya lithograph, Men Spitting at a Fire, showing the Spaniard's early use of the medium. Also on view is the Cubiculum, a Pompeian bedroom whose walls are slathered with paintings. Buried for 18 centuries under cinders from Mount Vesuvius, it was dug up in 1900 and only recently restored by the museum...
...onetime student of voodoo, Zarur grew up memorizing the Bible and studying mysticism. In 1932 he drifted into radio as a writer and actor. In 1948, as the story goes, a medium brought him a message from St. Francis of Assisi: "The time for the mission has arrived." "What mission?" asked Zarur. "Read the book about him," said the medium, "and you will understand." Zarur went back to a book by St. Francis, and suddenly "I knew everything. All I had to do was begin...
Studebaker's dealers had no such cushion. With the high-priced Avanti sports car, the medium-priced Hawk and all commercial trucks discontinued, they can still sell the low-priced Studebaker sedans that will be made in Hamilton. But business has been so bad recently that it could hardly get worse after last week's announcement...
Auden advocates a "just for the hell of it" attitude toward opera, as the means of coming to view as "positive advantages of the medium" the "unromantic physical appearance of the lovers, the improbability of the plots, the suspension of critical action while the singers get things off their chests, and the palpably sham scenery...