Word: outfitting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anshutz was a student of nature, drawing most of his inspiration from the workaday world. He had simple, direct ideas of truth in painting and how to go about it: "Get up an outfit for outdoor work, go out into some woe-begotten, turkey-chawed, bottle-nosed, henpecked country and set myself down, get out my materials and make as accurate a painting of what I see in front of me as I can." Anshutz' canvases breathe in life the way lungs take in air. In several seascapes at the gallery, young boys frolic over the beach...
...sense of frustration in the big corporation. The chief lure of small companies is greater responsibility in a hurry. Says Boston's Norman Krim. who swapped a Raytheon vice-presidency for the presidency of a discount house called Radio Shack: "You can move fast in a small outfit, but in a big company you have to wait for six or eight people up ahead of you." Promotions are swifter in small companies because competition is weaker; ideas also move to the top faster because fewer committees stand...
...patrol starts with a change into a special navy-blue Dacron and cotton coverall. The coverall reduces lint in the closed environment, has no cuffs or belts to get tangled in gear. "But," complains one officer, "it's next to impossible to go to the head in this outfit without dunking part...
...squadron of outriders, they did not so much attend a show as occupy it. Miss White, a nonviolently well-dressed woman, with her broken wrist (the result of a slip on the ice before she left the U.S.) bound in a sling that changed daily with her outfit, got the honored spot on Coco Chanel's couch; but Mrs. Vreeland, turbaned, fiery-eyed, and putting in her first appearances as Vogue's top editor, made up for it all by making more noise. Leaning slightly to one side or the other-the staff sits just a touch...
Spectacular Outfit. Every sort of blizzard gear was worn, but the most spectacular outfit was sported by Diana Wood, 35, pretty wife of Britain's Minister of Power Richard Wood. When an outbreak of power failures brought a storm of complaints to the Power Ministry, Mrs. Wood helped raise at least some temperatures by posing for the Daily Mail in her cold-weather costume: a turtleneck sweater, fishnet stockings, and skintight, black woolen knee-length panties...