Word: paint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...composer who employs himself as a librettist has a fool for a collaborator. Goya's scan-deep profundity is revealed in such apercus as "I have to paint to live. But I only live to paint." Never once, though, does Goya show its hero in the throes of creation. There is little sense of the penetrating psychological insight of his official portraits, and important events like his rise to court painter are only alluded to, or take place offstage. The horrors of the Napoleonic invasion, reflected in Goya masterpieces like the stark, brutal The Third of May, 1808, are suggested...
...Picture, for example, a retired Army officer and his wife have settled into what seems to be a peaceful and stable routine. He dabbles at painting; she reads and turns out occasional book reviews. One rainy night, a stray cat drops through the skylight in the captain's studio and moves in with them, apparently for good. The next morning, seeing the animal in a bowl that forms part of a still life her husband has arranged, the wife says, "If you could paint that -- that would be a picture." The remark is not intended in entire innocence; it opens...
...there. Chrysler has embraced high-technology equipment in its operations but has made the transition from the old ways at an orderly pace so that the new machines . function well. Boasts Sperlich: "Chrysler seems to be the one domestic company that has learned how to make its robots spray-paint cars instead of each other...
...Ford and $9,300 at Chrysler. A prime reason, ironically, is GM's multibillion-dollar rush to reduce labor costs by installing robotic factories, many of which still have bugs. Example: at Detroit's Poletown luxury-car plant, the taillights on some models tended to melt in the automated paint-hardening ovens. The technology * should gradually become a financial advantage as it begins to operate more smoothly. Says Chairman Smith: "You know we are not making clothespins. We are making a car with 15,000 parts...
...take the statistics and graphs and paint them over with streaks of crimson and blue. Drown them out with victory marches and fight songs. Douse them with a cold beer and get your artistic juices flowing...