Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jubilant occasion was the repatriation of Guernica, Pablo Picasso's stark protest against the savagery of war, which had come to symbolize Spanish hopes for democracy. Picasso had been commissioned by the Republican government of Spain to paint the mural for the Spanish pavilion at the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris...
Lacking psychological intelligence or, for that matter, awareness of Hollywood sociology, Mommie Dearest is just a collection of screechy scenes further distanced by convictionless direction. Confronted by a movie without narrative tension or human interest, one is finally reduced to watching the paint dry-on Dunaway's face...
...investigators descended on Beaver and learned that Lester had bought a 30-ft. boat for $6,500. But they moved on when they heard he might be living in Port Angeles (pop. 17,500). There they discovered that a Tony Lester was buying vitamins (a Boyce fetish) and marine paint in local stores. A team of 27 undercover agents blanketed the area and waited for Boyce to show his face. When he finally did, they found a rifle, two wigs and false sideburns in his car trunk, signs of life on the run and possibly bank robbing. Says Robert Christman...
...least one client complains that untrained high school graduates are not worth $7 an hour, which is more than double the $3.35 minimum hourly wage. But other customers are more worried about those uniforms. "The first thing I thought was that I hope they don't get paint on the expensive Izod shirts," says Mary Remmers, who hired the prep corps to do some painting. "I'd tell my own children to wear something scroungy...
...first sponsor was the redoubtable General William Clark (of Lewis and Clark fame), who took him along on a primitive steamship that pushed its way up the Missouri for 2,000 miles. Catlin returned by canoe with only two companions, clambering bluffs to sketch vistas, parlaying with chiefs to paint their portraits, draping wolf skins over his shoulders to stalk grazing buffalo on his hands and knees...