Word: painterly
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...analysis of underground rock formations, he explained why certain spots in active seismic areas, including those far away from the epicenter, are hit harder than others. His work influenced legislation in California, and he was consulted on construction projects from Egypt to Alaska. died. al held, 76, abstract painter and Yale University professor known for his gigantic geometrical pieces; near Camerata, Italy. After making his mark in the 1960s and '70s with a series of orderly, stylistic, mural-sized black-and-white works featuring cubes and pyramids that appeared to be floating, he painted dizzying grids and spheres...
...Although he was already a man of more than fifty years, that day he was a teenager. He stood at the head of the bus and addressed forty BLOHARDS squirming in their seats. He laid out the Bridgeport rule. The bus was a sea of Red Sox caps and painter?s hats (remember the trend?) embossed with nicknames of the era-DEWEY, BIG FOOT, HIT MAN (remember them?). On some of the older hats...
DIED. ROWLAND WILSON, 74, cartoonist for Esquire, the New Yorker and, most famously, Playboy, where his full-page watercolors were a relatively sex-free staple of the men's magazine; of heart failure; in Encinitas, Calif. A longtime painter of witty ads for New England Life Insurance, he helped animate such Disney films as Tarzan and The Little Mermaid...
Buchloh is now finishing a monograph on the German painter Gerhard Richter, whom he has studied for two decades and whose reputation he has greatly advanced...
Rosenthal's retirement closes a chapter in one of the most extraordinary success stories in American journalism. The son of a Belorussian-born house painter, Abraham M. Rosenthal grew up in the Bronx and attended City College of New York. He started working for the Times as a $12-a-week campus stringer in 1943 and went on to become one of the paper's most celebrated foreign correspondents. His sensitive, flavorful dispatches from India, Poland and Japan made A.M. Rosenthal a familiar byline and won him a Pulitzer Prize...