Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been letting the students, rather than paid janitors, sweep the floors, take care of the grounds and carry out other routine maintenance. Teachers are expensive, but so are other services and supplies. Vocational classes might do well to keep up the heating and plumbing systems, the brickwork, the paint, and replace broken windows or burned-out bulbs...
...Soviet flag down from its U.N. flagpole. At about the same time, a boy and a girl, both aged 15, slipped into the lobby of the Soviet mission on Manhattan's East 67th Street, broke a glass door and sprayed the area with an aerosol can of red paint. The midtown Manhattan office of Aeroflot, the Soviet airline, got similar treatment...
...year-old wife, Jacqueline Roque, is his shield: for the past ten years at Mougins she has borne the punishing weight of answering and filtering Picasso's mail, keeping his clippings up to date, dealing with the telephone, the cataloguing, the buying of food, supplies, canvas, paint and, on top of it all, calming the nerves of a high-strung and tetchy nonagenarian painter. They have produced no children. Jacqueline has a 22-year-old daughter from her previous marriage, who often visits them. But Picasso's isolation from his own offspring is nearly absolute. His first...
...energy with which Picasso can still attack his work is demoniac. He still, on occasion, paints until 2 or 3 a.m., and regularly puts in eight hours a day in the studio. "I painted three canvases this afternoon," Picasso once told his amanuensis, Hélène Parmelin. "What's necessary is to do them, to do them, to do them! The more you paint, the nearer you get to something. You must do as many as possible." This obsessed machismo resembles nothing so much as a displacement of sex into art: the furious production of Picasso...
There is a new Dylan song on the latest Band album Cahoots (Capitol). Describing his adventures in Italy. "When I Paint My Masterpiece," is with the exception of "If Not For You," his best tune in the past two years. It is clear that the man has not lost all his talent, when he can write a line like: "Sailin' round the world in a dirty gondola. Oh to be back in the land of Coca-Cola...