Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neighboring Kentucky, preparing for its first electrocution since 1962, the executioner will be a freelance outsider the state hired through a want ad. He will wear black robes and a black hood. But Warden Gene Scroggy has had Kentucky's old electric chair stripped of its black paint and left naturally blond. "I didn't care for black," explains Scroggy. "Black was fine 22 years ago. But society, the way it is today-well, we thought we'd try to brighten...
...pesticides. Methyl isocyanate (MIC) helps produce Union Carbide's Temik, a product marketed under Robert Gordon Haines, the company's manager for new pesticides. It is one of a group of chemicals called isocyanates that are used to make polyurethane, which, in turn, is used to make paint and varnish. The MIC compound also has been made in the U.S. at Union Carbide's plant in Institute, W. Va., as well as by other companies in West Germany, Japan and South Korea...
...paintings on the White House walls was switched without announcement or ceremony last month, but not because the subject was unknown. The reason is that former President Richard Nixon, 71, never did like the portrait of him by Alexander Clayton that hung for three years outside the East Room. So last January, Nixon personally commissioned Houston Painter J. Anthony Wills, 72, to produce a new likeness for $20,000. Wills, who had done Dwight Eisenhower's White House portrait and had also rendered Henry Kissinger for the State Department, went to New York City to see his subject...
Gigi reminds us theatregoers have yet to match the security of the wine connoiseur at a Paris cafe. This production of Gigi comes with the same winning label that made a delightful book for Colette, one of the first great musicals by the Lerner and Lowe team that brought Paint Your Wagon (1951), My Fair Lady (1956), and Camelot (1960), and swept nine academy awards in 1958 for the film version. We even see Louis Jourdan, who first achieved popular fame as Gaston, return as Honore, the role immortalized by Maurice Chevalier...
...with plastic dinosaurs and rockets. Larger-than-life wooden silhouettes - two birds, for instance, or a garland of branches - shoot up around the landscapes of Alan Herman. More established figures are also working in the same vein. Howard Hodgkin, whose canny strokes of pigment hint at enclosed views, sweeps paint across the frame to twit its pretensions as the final proscenium...