Word: paints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London is having her first coat of paint since the war, and the masons and glaziers and bricklayers are busy everywhere. Underneath the refurbished facade, though, is a grimness which reveals in lots of little ways that the British are worrying that the gap between what's going out and what's coming back isn't being closed fast enough...
What Ricksha Boys Know. So Ch'ih Huang, the carpenter, became Ch'ih Pai-shih, the artist, to paint for the rest of his days-lotus blossoms, palm leaves, banana trees, but mostly crickets, chicks, shrimps and crabs. "Only the rich have known landscapes," says he. "But every ricksha boy knows a shrimp or a crab...
...ctor Poleo argues better with his brush, going off to his studio in the early morning, there to paint for ten hours at a stretch, until he has covered canvas with grief and ruin and death...
...play with them. With my stick, I direct them onto the canvas. The black is the bass and the blue is the piano. I say to the yellow, 'I am coming for you,' and to the pink, 'Stay quiet.' Yes, when I paint I am the conductor-like Toscanini...
...bookish but unpretentious sort, Allen likes to play parlor word-games, cowboy pool and the snare drum, clock track meets, paint in water colors, study his fellow man on street corners, and trade ideas about everything from college-girl fashions to Jake Kramer's backhand...