Word: painting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...necktie, were momentarily panicky, but they were soon calmed by assurances from Captain Frank S. Siwik, 50, that there was no great danger. Siwik, master of Santa Rosa since her maiden trip last year, directed emergency work from the bridge, ordered fire fighters into the paint locker, radioed the Coast Guard for aid (a Coast Guard helicopter dropped extra carbon dioxide fire extinguishers). Siwik kept his ship's prow stuffed into the tanker's big gash, enabling his own crew to help fight Valchem's fire, facilitating the transfer of Valchem's 17 injured seamen...
...Soviet authorities were up in arms at the treachery of two young painters, E. Sazykin and Andreev, who had been commissioned to paint collective farm life in the town of Bondari. Instead, they were doing a brisk business painting icons and murals for the local Russian Orthodox church. On the ground that it was rank ingratitude to prefer "the dark corners of churches" to "the radiant creativeness" of Soviet life, the art committee expelled them...
...Salemme was born in a Boston suburb, went to Manhattan at 18 and made it his own, educating himself at the public library. For a living he tried many menial jobs: he ran elevators, once worked as doorkeeper at the Guggenheim Museum. He long hesitated between painting and writing, failed to paint a picture that struck him as "a personal statement" until he was 32. In the eleven years of his life that remained, Salemme sold pictures to Manhattan's Metropolitan, Whitney and Modern museums. He was also commissioned to paint murals for posh Manhattan House...
...above a reflecting lagoon are meant to convey, in Maybeck's words, "sadness, modified by the feeling that beauty has a soothing effect." Seen by 10 million visitors over the years, it has become the most popular public monument in California. Today its plaster is crumbling, the paint is flaking, and the roof leaks. But it still does what great architecture is meant to do: touch the heart and enlarge the vision...
Lithuanian-born Rabbi Guterman, 75, who had to cut down on his habitual 15 hours a day of study, describes himself as nothing but a "painter and decorator." Says he: "The paint and the paper are there. I only mix the paint properly and pick out the wallpaper that will harmonize with...