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Word: paint (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover: Acrylic paint on Masonite, by Argentine-born Hector Garrido...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Dec. 13, 1968 | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...nudes, Vaseline is used wherever the plaster might pull on body hair. But Segal can never cast the whole figure in one piece-a complete cast would cut off the body's pores from the outer air and might prove as lethal to the model as gold paint was to the hapless girl in Goldfinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exhibitions: Presences in Plaster | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

...miraculous pill that turns them Caucasian overnight. The father and mother immediately start putting down their black neighbors, but their son and daughter refuse to join in the whiteballing. When a racist threatens them, they angrily announce that black is not only beautiful but necessary, smear him with black paint and begin advancing, tarbrushes in hand, on the audience. Playwright Israel Horovitz thoroughly comprehends Freud's dictum that laughter is a release from tension. With fusillades of obscenities and insult humor, he keeps the audience too jittery and hysterical to realize that they have only been watching an intellectual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays: Three Authors in Search of an Act | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

This is a story that every art collector, big and little, dreams of. At the flea market in Paris, a West German businessman buys a painting of two sunbathing nudes for $40. The picture is grimy, so he scrubs it with a strong solvent. Behold, a blue shimmer of paint appears below the surface, and a professional restorer uncovers a remarkable signature-"Claude Monet, 1877." Now fully restored, the canvas appears to be one of Monet's largest impressionistic versions of Paris' Gare St. Lazare. But how did Monet ever get covered over? Easy: it was the vogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 29, 1968 | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

Dali on Dali in (some) words and (many) pictures. Inevitably among those present: pre-pop Surrealist Dali, Prurient Dali, Renaissance Dali, and Dali, boy genius grown old. Also, on practically every page, Dali the pyrotechnician in paint, the most engaging, self-indulgent and talented decorator of his age. Appropriately wrapped, like candy, in gold tinfoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Christmas Shelf: Bigness and Beauty | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

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