Word: paint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This boy gave me an extra 200 gallons of paint every month. I made her look like a yacht...
Trying to live down the blood bath, the new government sent soldiers all over Baghdad with green paint to erase extremist anti-Western slogans. Photographs of violence (including pictures of the naked corpse of the Crown Prince hanging footless from a post, and the dismembered body of Premier Nuri being dragged through the streets) disappeared from shops. Strict orders were issued to the public against molesting foreigners. The violently anti-Western newspaper Al-Bilad was told to stop its inflammatory editorials; the radio kept issuing reassuring reports on the oil industry, whose refineries went on producing and whose foreign technicians...
...Milan, where the show attracted 5,000 during the summer art season doldrums, the recognized critics took quite a different view. Wrote Carriere della Sera's Leonardo Borgese: "It is not new. It is not painting. It is not America . . . Droppings of paint, sprayings, burstings, lumps, squirts, whirls, rubs and marks, erasures, scrawls, doodles and kaleidoscope backgrounds. When will they send us a real American show?" The owner of one of Milan's art galleries took one look, snorted, "Droolings!" and departed...
...observed nature. Emerging early as the most noted was Pollock, hailed by some European painters and critics as the first great innovator in modern art since the birth of cubism-and hooted at by others. Wrote Critic John Russell in London's Sunday Times after seeing a Pollock painting in 1956: "I will not say that I was prejudiced against Mr. Pollock's picture by the fact that he made it by pouring the paint onto a flat canvas out of a can and later slapping the huge canvas with his own paint-covered hands. An interesting work...
...clubs, waistlines, and bank accounts got bigger. Madison Avenue, in a Brooks Brothers and button-down salaam to the Little Woman and her big roller pin, committed the ultimate betrayal of privacy every TV evening: the advertising grab-bag of under-arm deodorants, living bras, toilet tissue, toe-nail paint, perfume, mouthwash, and the Potato Sack look. Sex was the province of the Ladies Home Journal. Dr. Spock replaced the Bible. Bohemia in pink panties was more organized nymphomania than Art. Greenwich Village was overrun with mop-headed, turtle-necked, tweed-wrapped, smudge-faced, and beer-reeking femmes fatale, with...