Word: painting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed to be an odd pair-the introspective President, a cold-minded engineer with a passion to get every detail right, and the Bunyanesque extravert (the front license plate of his limousine on Inauguration Day proclaimed BERT; the rear one, LANCE), who cheerfully mangled facts in his haste to paint the big picture. But there were deep bonds between the two opposites. At 46, Lance was closer in age to the President, who is 52, than most of the young Georgians who made up the White House's inner circle. Like the Baptist President, Lance-a Methodist-took...
...energy that a pencil or brush can express and the kind of incisive force that the bite of his scissors gave to Matisse's later image of a figure in ecstatic movement, La Danseuse, 1949. The directness of such a cut-out could not be repeated in paint. No drawn profile could approach the strictness of a cut edge, and the paper has its own density as palpable substance-which accounts for the peculiarly sculptural look of some of Matisse's blue cut-outs of nudes, such as the Woman with Amphora and Pomegranates...
...better. In Zambia, Lappe and Collins report, doctors frequently write "Coca-Cola baby" on the progress reports of infants hospitalized for malnutrition; Zambian mothers, assuming Coke must be good for children because it is so expensive, feed it to their babies instead of milk. The picture the authors paint of the human toll of profit-maximizing techniques is not a pretty...
...other vanners at picnicky socials that are held all over the country. Such a bash is known as a "truckin" or a "burnout" or a "push" or-ah!-a "van-go." Invariably, a key feature of the outing is the mutual admiration of vans and the adorning artwork. Some paint jobs cost $3,000. News of ever fresh extravagances circulates in 25 or so magazines devoted to vanning...
...double by year's end. The idea of putting wheedle on wheels came to Charles Bird, now 36, a former Los Angeles advertising consultant. Beetle owners who qualify -their cars must be insured and log at least 1,000 miles a month for "exposure" -get a free paint job along with the advertising motif, plus $20 a month. Aimed initially at college kids, the campaign has enlisted doctors, professors, lawyers, businessmen and bankers. Themes have included a mustachioed, sombreroed Mexican against an orange background (Ole Tequila), a red baron flying high in a blue sky (Seagram...