Word: paint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What caused Courbet as much trouble as his subject matter (a village funeral, peasant stone breakers, farm women winnowing wheat) was his own self-centered swagger and robust peasant's appetite. One of his favorite painting subjects was himself (see cut). He accepted an admirer's praise by assenting with gusto, "I paint like le bon Dieu." A sturdy, black-bearded bohemian, Courbet would sit up drinking until dawn, once on a trip to Munich defeated 60 Bavarians in a four-day drinking bout. His taste in female models (many of whom became his mistresses) was equally gargantuan...
Pumpkins and red paint at Princeton cannot obscure the basic principle of academic freedom which the trustees and administration have supported in the past week. Although they made the point very clear that they did not think the Whig-Cliosophic Society should have invited Alger Hiss to speak, they stated with equal strength that they would not succumb to alumni pressures by interfering with a student group's right to have a free hand in inviting speakers...
BLACK AUTOS are making a comeback. After slipping to 12% of the market in August of 1954, black and charcoal grey shot up to 20% of all new-car paint jobs turned out last January...
...Captain Kidd's peg, which is slightly disconcerting at times especially coming forth from balloon-like limbs. But in this as in other exaggerations he is striving for rhythm. The roundness of the figures, their repeated curved gestures and the arrangement of objects reinforce the swinging effect. Even the paint, or rather melted wax (encaustic) helps to quicken movement applied as it often is in windy veils of color. Berger's canvases could be likened to snow globes in the midst of a storm...
DeGuglielmo noted that the only concrete complaints Fortune voiced at the committee meeting were his office's need of a paint job and the lack of "some machine at the City Planning Department which the Engineer's Office has at their disposal." Councillor Alfred A. Vellucci also took issue with Fortune's charge of "non-cooperation," saying that it was "ridiculous...