Word: paint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sacramento suburb of Carmichael on April 21. The ski-masked bandits-three men and a woman-stole $15,000. Before fleeing, they gunned down a woman customer for no apparent reason. One incriminating piece of evidence, signed with an alias that the Harrises used, was a receipt for a paint job on a car that authorities believe was used in the Guild Savings and Loan robbery. Freshly repainted, the car was employed for the Carmichael robbery...
Small Events. But the high points of the show are twelve hanging scrolls, six by Itō Jakachu and six by Sakai Hōitsu. These artists represent the poles of style and temperament in Edo period painting: Hōitsu with his feathery, elusive washes of ink painted wet into wet; Jakachu with his steely drawing and complicated patterns. Hōitsu was nobly born, the younger brother of a feudal lord. However, he wanted to paint, and, being a most elegant dilettante, educated to the fingertips, he ran through a succession of styles before fixing the manner...
...minor artist. He sinned by missing the historical bus. The peculiar complexities, doubts and unfamiliarities of living in the 20th century had radically altered the historical sense of a whole generation of artists. Pound and Joyce no less than Picasso, Stravinsky or André Breton. John, however, continued to paint like a swashbuckling hedonist. His drawings of the figure had dash and virtuosity, even in his student years at the Slade School. He was, in the view of friends like Sir William Orpen, the inordinately successful painter, the best draftsman to work in England since Van Dyck. The last modern...
...sticker prices below last year's 8% to 9% increases, manufacturers are changing some items that were previously listed as standard equipment into extra-cost options. The auto companies are also holding down costs by minimizing changes in body design. Instead, they are offering new colors, splashy paint jobs and even more luxurious interiors on some models. Ford's new Lincoln Mark IV, for example, will be available in Carder, Bill Blass, Givenchy and Pucci "editions...
...have got it. Only once did anyone bother to try and fix up Darlaston. That was in 1960, when Princess Margaret visited Rubery Owen. The factory had such a face-lift as we couldn't recognize it. Wherever they decided she was going to go, the paint went on. I think they must've touched up the clouds. Looks as if we got to get some other monarch down here before it has another bit of paint...