Word: painting
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...sketches of Mother Teresa made a lasting impression at the Vatican and earned portrait artist George Pollard a commission to paint a likeness of John Paul II--just one of the 5,000 portraits Pollard created in his lifetime, many of prominent leaders, athletes and entertainers. The unassuming Wisconsin native painted John F. Kennedy, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron and Harry S Truman--who quipped upon seeing his portrait, "I think you flattered me just right." Pollard...
...your essays, show what makes you tick; the essays are not brag sheets. Don't list what you did so much as account for how you were effective getting others, like professors and other students, to help you. Think Tom Sawyer. Get the others to help you paint the fence. Don't brag about raising money for charity, but explain how you convinced 20 other kids to help you raise money for charity...
...neighborhood. “Nest” was an adaptation of the “hamster nests” that the two artists had previously created privately in hotel rooms. Over three days, Snow shredded 2,000 phonebooks in a large room that was then torn apart. Paint poles were stuck into the walls, bottles into the sheetrock, and bodily fluids were spread everywhere in between. A press release for the show states, “The artists themselves are not interested in the destruction that lies in their wake per-se, but seek rather a total freedom of expression...
...interpret his film for anyone, he does not want to explain his characters and their backgrounds in excessive depth either. “I don’t go to that great pains to explain,” he said. “I don’t paint it too clearly.” McCarthy did, however, have much to say on the topic of deportation and the treatment of detainees, a subject that many members of the audience touched on in the question and answer session. “We can definitely do better than this...
...their economic woes, turning it into a blanket charge of elitism against Obama. Copping her lines almost directly from 30 years of Republican smear literature, Clinton assessed Obama’s rhetoric as out-of-touch with supposedly authentic heartland values. Her surrogates quickly jumped into line to help paint Obama in the political poison-cloud of liberal snobbery...