Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appeared to be an aesthete to his fingertips. Staining, scumbling, glazing, building up those exquisite oblongs of color, he coaxed an amazing range of effects from a nominally simple format. Sometimes the paint has the grainy opacity of stone, sometimes it is no more than a puff, a vapor with color bleeding through it. It is never crude and only rarely inert. In this way a most sonorous pictorial eloquence is placed at the service of incommunicable feelings, and the sad facts of Rothko's life rush in to complete the missing subject matter. In a sense, the late works...
...were looking for a space which would meet the needs of the center--one that is big enough, with no lead paint and proper fire safety measures," Michael F. Brewer, assistant vice-president of community and government affairs, said yesterday...
...Four platoons (200 troops) meet in a silent hollow for final briefing. Another 40 lieutenants, located elsewhere, are the "aggressors." Duden smears black and olive green camouflage paint on her face, then loads rounds of blank ammunition into her M16. "You each get 60 rounds," yells a commander. "They have to last you until tonight...
...straining hard to seem as naive as her little dog Toto, is blown by a snowstorm to Munchkin land. This turns out to be the old New York World's Fair Pavilion at Flushing Meadow, where the Wicked Witch of the East has turned hundreds of juvenile spray-paint vandals into graffiti figures. The yellow brick road leads across the Brooklyn Bridge to the World Trade Center, where Richard Pryor reigns as the Wiz. But before Dorothy gets there, she meets a roarious but cowardly lion (Ted Ross) and a marvelous scarecrow (Michael Jackson), hung up on his pole...
...last few weeks, the studied, statesman-like poses originally struck by Republican incumbent John Tower and Democratic challenger Bob Krueger have, in part, given way to the childish stance of petulant name-callers. Virtually devoid of substantive issues, the campaign has become a contest to see who can paint the most nefarious portrait of his opponent. And the prize will most certainly not go to the most accurate artist...