Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...soon, the jokes stop working. My mind wandered and I began thinking that all the art I'd ever seen was so much paint. New York was so much garbage, and I knew that the hot dogs were after my stomach. As I left. I didn't save the tickets, and had lost the urge to ask the usher the question...
Today the most recurring objects in his sculptures are croquet and billiard balls ("the world, and also the idea of Orpheus as an entertainer and juggler"), dolls ("man in his universe"), and ironing boards ("connotations of heat suggest hell"). Weather, rather than paint, creates his mellowed patinas, as well as the myriad uses to which each object has been put. But more than any natural beauty, it is his arrangement into harmonious compositions that give Boghosian's rescued miscellany a sad, precious sense of fatality...
...aspects of life, the kids are demanding a new honesty in film-making that has nothing to do with the size of the budget. Michael Campus, 28, former director of specials at CBS, explains: "Young people are saying that it's a crime to spend $20 million on Paint Your Wagon. That amount could remake a city." Perhaps in getting right with the new audience, Hollywood will not only save its head, but its own soul...
...past two weeks, executives of Farbwerke Hoechst, a huge chemical manufacturer, have played the part with particular bravura in Britain and France. Climaxing a long contest, they outbid the U.S.'s Sherwin-Williams Co. to win a controlling interest in Berger, Jenson & Nicholson Ltd., a major British paint producer. In France, Hoechst executives encouraged a merger of two concerns, Roussel-Uclaf and Centrale de Dynamite, which together sell about $200 million worth of Pharmaceuticals a year -or almost as much as Rhone-Pou-lenc, the French pharmaceutical leader. Hoechst has ties to both concerns and will come out owning...
...cubic inch 360-horsepower engine with a high-lift cam and four-barrel carburetor which breathes through real air scoops." By January, ads for the Skylark were headlined "Something to Believe In," and the copy noted such features as hidden windshield wipers and six coats of paint, while stressing "product integrity...