Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...octogenarian Sunday painter's first one-man show, and it opened, appropriately, at the center for labor studies in suburban Washington, D.C., named after George Meany (see BUSINESS & ECONOMY). The gruff AFL-CIO boss began dabbling with a paint-by-numbers set 21 years ago, and was soon devoting an hour a day to landscapes and still lifes of his own. He got the idea for Bermuda Race from a newspaper photo; Merry Christmas was inspired by a clown on a greeting card. One red, yellow and blue abstract dubbed Unfilled originated as a doodle. Meany confessed that...
...concern with local and private affairs shows up in other ways. On a typical Saturday morning, hordes of homeowners stagger out of local lumberyards with loads of paneling, paint and bathroom fixtures for some do-it-yourself remodeling. A surge in family outings has helped to produce a boom in downhill and cross-country skiing and in ice skating...
...would not shrink federal revenues over the long run and cut into plans for social programs, as they believe a permanent tax cut would do. Okun, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution and once chief economic adviser to Lyndon Johnson, feels that a permanent cut would "paint Carter into a corner" before he has a chance to move on such other fronts as welfare reform and health insurance...
...Banker David Rockefeller's home on St. Barthélemy Island in the Caribbean. There would be a fitting punishment for the diplomatic press once Cyrus Vance took office: "The only shuttle you guys will take from now on is between New York and Washington." Asked who would paint his official portrait, which will be displayed at the State Department, Kissinger replied with a grin: "I can pick the artist, but Vance can pick the corridor...
...lucrative period at this stage in her career. She plans to spend more time with her husband of three years, Peter Elkus, a baritone who is just getting his own career going. She wants to have children and do more lieder singing, where, she says, "you paint everything with your voice...