Word: paint
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...Your postcard on the blue school, the high-priced, flavor-of-the-month teaching experiment in New York City, tells us that preschoolers are encouraged "to mess with shaving cream" [Nov. 22]. I expect that with such "encouragement," the little darlings in a few years will take up aerosol paint cans and leave their creative tags in the form of graffiti on public landmarks. But no doubt such "messing" with spray paint is just another form of self-expression. Richard Orlando, Montreal, Canada
...with the defending MAAC conference champions. It took just 17 seconds after the tip-off for Markley to take a pass from senior guard Emily Tay (seven points, five assists) and hit a pretty baseline jumper to get the Crimson started. Markley was the most aggressive player in the paint on either side all afternoon, scoring 14 points on 5-of-13 shooting and eight rebounds.“She could be one of the best players to ever wear this uniform,” Delaney-Smith said. Marist took the lead for good just three minutes into the game...
...empty passageways,” leads to Kaminski finding his aesthetic style and presumably himself. “After he’d been located and brought back out, he locked himself away for five days. Nobody knew what had gone on. But starting from then, he began to paint quite differently.” And soon enough, he is brushing shoulders with the likes of Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, exhibiting his work in the Musée d’Orsay and the Museum of Modern Art. When Zollner meets him, all Kaminski lacks is a biography that...
...much younger Trisha Brown hovers above a white, horizontal canvas. Her hands are covered with blue gloves and paint, and her feet are smeared with charcoal; her whole body is employed in drawing as she moves on all fours. The Remis Auditorium at the Museum of Fine Arts falls silent as the contemporary dancer stops talking about her choreography for the opera “Carmen” and turns towards the image of herself defying countless classical definitions of visual art and dance. “I nabbed the gloves from intensive care at Fort Myers hospital...
...Reissue, repackage, repackage.” So sang Morrissey on the greatest-hits-mocking “Paint a Vulgar Picture” from The Smiths’ fourth and final studio album, “Strangeways, Here We Come.” Despite these righteous words, the band—who split in 1987—are now releasing their eighth compilation album, “The Sound of the Smiths.” The two disc release includes every one of the classics that have already been included on their myriad greatest hits collections, but it also throws...