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Word: painting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many a larger city: a fine symphony orchestra, directed by Spanish-born Theo Alcantara, a ballet troupe and a civic theater. Jerry and Betty Ford buy season tickets, but they are used by his half brothers, Jim, an optometrist, and Richard, who works as manager for the Ford Paint and Varnish Co., which the Ford family sold to Standard Detroit Paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: GRAND RAPIDS AS CHARACTER WITNESS | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...other hand, I see that the town of Hanover, perhaps the entire state of New Hampshire, is going berserk in preparation for this game. Fires on Wednesday night, pre-game rallies on Friday, and some students even took the trouble to come all the way down to Cambridge to paint John Harvard green. How neat, how mean...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Savior-Faire | 10/16/1976 | See Source »

...missionaries will be found to underwrite the costs. Kimball, originally from Madison, Wisc., lived in a house in South Korea for $70 a month, a fee that included room, board, and laundry. Stromberg describes the places he lived in Japan with one word: "Dumps." And though the paint may be peeling in his Quincy suite, Petersen says, "It's much nicer than any place I lived in. "One had inch-long termites that flew around the room at night...

Author: By Dennis B. Fitzgibbons, | Title: They Took Two Years to Proselytize, But Now They're at Harvard Again | 10/7/1976 | See Source »

...most famous anamorphic image in art is the smear of paint that tilts upward, like a dun-colored flying saucer, from the bottom of Hans Holbein's 1533 double portrait of Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve, The Ambassadors. When squinted at edge-on, from the right-hand side of the frame, the smear turns into a skull. The illusion is startling: the rest of the painting disappears and the death's-head floats eerily in a greenish-brown blur. What Holbein meant by it is still a matter of debate among historians. Is it a comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fun-Fair Illusions | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...worry, there's nothing at all you'll be missing this week if you decide to paint your room or audit the Red Line instead of donating your twelve bucks to der Internazionalkonzertenkartel...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: rock | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

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