Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Immanent Abstraction. "I don't create women," he once snapped at a critic. "I paint pictures." It sounded like an aphorism. What it meant to Matisse is suggested by his very early (1896), very realistic portrait of a Breton girl. She is subdued, even sallow, but curiously taking: look carefully at the painting, then look away, and all that remains in the mind is the simple shape of face, with eyes and mouth burned in. The human, for Matisse, could be contorted, abstracted, reduced to geometry and architecture and decoration, but without losing particularity. When Matisse succeeded, his human...
Starving Africans throw away gifts of American powdered milk, complaining that it harbors evil spirits. Colombian Indians refuse to drink reconstituted milk and use it instead to paint their huts. On the Navajo reservation, many Indians discard Government-issue powdered milk rather than suffer diarrhea. All have a problem in common. A surprisingly large portion of the world's population cannot digest an important ingredient in milk: lactose...
...River is under way at last. Its first stage, a 150-megawatt dam, will be finished by 1972. Even the interior city of Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, which suffered terrible damage during the Simba rebellion of 1964-65, is returning to life. The town glitters with a coat of fresh paint in honor of a visit by Belgium's King Baudouin, who arrived in the Congo for the anniversary...
Receding Eyes. When a few black women began to use cosmetics, the lipsticks and makeup then available did not really work on black skins. Naomi Sims, a model, recalls having to mix her own even in the early '60s: "I used to add rouge and watercolor paint," she says. Model Pat Evans remembers makeup that "turned black women's mouths into neon signs, turned their skin ashen, made their eyes recede." The fact is that stock cosmetics are bad for blacks...
...morale, in fact, is at its highest point in months. "The uncertainty of the future still gnaws at everybody," a Cairo businessman said last week, "but at least we know that Cairo won't be bombed." The piles of sandbags have disappeared from the Nile bridges, blue dimout paint has been scraped off windows and automobile headlights, and Suleyman Pasha Square is bathed in new floodlights...