Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Writer-Director Francis Ford Coppola, 27, exudes energy, freshness and promise in his first major film-a wacky farce about a Little Boy Blue (Peter Kastner) who turns out to be as green as they come when he tries to paint the town...
...some Chicagoans, but Chicago is one of the cleanest cities in the U.S. So, on a year-round basis, are Riverbank, Calif., Muncie, Ind., Omaha, Neb., Paramus, N.J., Chattanooga and Memphis, Tenn., and Grand Prairie, Texas. But none were quite tidy enough to win the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau's annual Cleanest Town award, subsidized by paint and varnish manufacturers, and presented by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman in Washington last week. The cleanest town in the U.S.: San Antonio, Texas...
...contract was signed on Feb. 7. Transporting the painting to the U.S. involved security precautions and scientific hugger-mugger worthy of Maxwell Smart. Code name for the painting was "the Bird." To transport Ginevra, a $52.95 American Tourister three-suiter was lined with Styrofoam that would cushion any bumps or jolts. But before the Bird could be nested, there were the problems of humidity and temperature to solve; in the Prince's vaults, where Ginevra had been kept, the temperature is 44°, humidity 55%. If the wood-panel oil heated or dried too quickly, the paint surface might...
...Actually," he continued later, "I don't paint cows because they are cows. You have to go under that surface quality. I'm not sure people would go for me if I were a pure realist." And his present popularity? "I'm just appalled and amazed at the way in which people are interested in my paintings. I think it's because I happen to paint things that reflect the basic truths of life: sky, earth, friends, the intimate things. People are drawn to my work by common feelings that go beyond...
Determined to disprove such nonsense, he returned to Philadelphia and taught his brothers, sons, daughters and, eventually, his grandchildren to paint. They in turn taught their children, thus founding the U.S.'s first dynasty of painters. The fruits of their endeavors have now been assembled by the Detroit Institute of Arts, where last week more than 200 works by Charles Willson Peale and 19 of his kith and kin were on display (see color pages...