Word: paints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room given to Michael and Eileen is packed like a storage cellar with paint cans, a battered cocktail wagon, a shopping cart, cardboard boxes full of clothing, which serve as Michael's chest of drawers, suitcases and a single bed resting on remnants of red carpet...
...other hand, some painters emerge with a strength rarely acknowledged in England or America. Lovis Corinth's Ecce Homo, 1925, was painted in the last year of his life, as he was fighting semiparalysis from a stroke; yet the blunt, stabbing paint marks and the drawing that break from high academic certitude into the quavers of a loaded brush--not to mention the conception of Christ's humiliation before the Jews in contemporary dress, with a German officer as Roman centurion--are grittily eloquent...
...number of other acclaimed eateries --Spago, Trumps, Morton's, Scandia, the Ivy--also flourish. So do a fistful of opulent hotels, including Le Bel Age (a classy favorite of businessmen), the Sunset Marquis (occasional host to Bruce Springsteen and Cyndi Lauper) and Le Mondrian (boasting a $1 million rainbow paint job, nightly jazz and some of the best panoramic views in town...
...first acts was to roll back rents to the level of the previous summer, which immediately saved $40 to $90 a month for many tenants. Later the council limited rent hikes to a piddling 3% for 1985. This sudden redistribution of income moved several outraged landlords to splash red paint on the facades of their apartment buildings, a protest against "socialism...
...Earl of Oxford. For that matter, we know hardly anything at all about the creator of The Odyssey, whether he was a man or a woman, one poet or many. Still, any printed work is a reproduction, one of many. And though even a reproduction of a great painting can have a powerful effect, there is something magical about the uniqueness of the original, the knowledge that Rembrandt applied his brush just here, nowhere else, and never again. Or somebody did. So we wander into that philosophical bramble patch at the edge of the legendary forest where the legendary tree...