Word: paint
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Four years later, dragging the judges and the sport behind them, they exemplify a bold, contemporary approach to ice dancing. While the two top couples from the former Soviet Union favor exacting, classical lines, Isabelle likens the Duchesnays' effect to "picking up a pail of paint and going splash, splash." The appeal of the two styles is strikingly different. "One is a Picasso, the other a Renoir," says Isabelle. These days a jarring number of other competitors also want to be Picasso...
Richard Serra also seems to have grown more subtle with age. He is one of America's most notorious artists, thanks to his Tilted Arc sculpture commissioned by the Federal Government. None of the antagonism or intrusiveness of his steel and lead sculpture appears in this set of paint-stick creations. Like his Icelandic series on display at the Museum of Modern Art, these "drawings" do not demand but simply invite our musing, our quiet and unrestrained submission to atmosphere...
Sunday night's studio-warming party also commemorated the general renovation of Studio CC, including a new paint job and the removal of all of what Topaz called "kludges...
...Harvard's down by just one point with seconds to play. The shooting guard takes the inbounds pass near the sidelines and dribbles across the top of the key...he's looking for Mitchell down low...there's the pass to mitchell on the edge of the paint, and Mitchell is quickly triple teamed...Mitchell fakes, spins...
...Greater Los Angeles Auto Show last week, Rene Pacheco, a contractor who owns three Toyota pickups because he believes their American counterparts aren't as reliable, dismissed Detroit's latest offerings. "Take this car here," he said, pointing to a moderately expensive U.S. model. "Look at the paint job. Americans are into details. If you're going to spend $25,000, I don't want something that looks like this. The Japanese have a better product." Similar reasoning led the Los Angeles transportation commission to authorize the purchase of 41 light railcars for the city's Metro Rail Green Line...