Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afraid to fly and broods constantly about the weather as his DC-7 lifts him from city to city? When a TIME reporter teasingly called his attention to oil spouting from an engine, the candidate's eyes popped. After peering at it intently, he explained that this was the kind of engine that leaks oil normally, then lit one of the cigars he smokes incessantly, but whose brand he cannot name...
...friend said, "The Army is competely armed and supplied by the United States. Bullets are given to us from American boxes, lubrication oil for the American M-1 guns is given to us in American cans, visual aids for basic training are American drawings...
...Every little show on Mass. Ave. sports its own head posters, Night Watches and Van Gogh bridges along with Jewish holiday cards, plastic roses and scented pillows. But few bare walls are ugly enough to be insulted by a dollar's worth of commercialized psychedelia incongruously mushed with Great Oil Painting of the Western World...
...Great Works of Fine Arts 13. With the poster you not only have the "picture" designed by the artist but the materials, the consistency and the total visual effect. With a paper edition of Rembrandt you hold only a deceitful shadow of the real object without the thick oil texture, the density, the depth that make the work great...
...gets easier and easier to fool yourself. We all teach our eyes to lie to us about what they see. But ink isn't oil, paper isn't canvas, a dollar-fifty print isn't Rembrandt. Sometimes it seems worth it to care about what is real. And it will grow on you by January...