Word: patch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Matisse had been working to solve the split he had always experienced between drawing and painting. By cutting shapes out of precolored paper -- cutting, as he saw it, directly into the color -- and then pasting them on the surface, he closed the gap between outline drawing and color patch. As in Memory of Oceania, 1952-53, he gave the art of collage a brilliance, size and optical vivacity it had never had before. Thus in the '60s he became the father figure of the new art of disembodied color being created by Americans like Helen Frankenthaler and Morris Louis...
...there I was, like a thousand other graduates from 26 states on a summer weekend, hurrying toward my tiny (pop. 2,074) hometown of Greenfield, Iowa, to say farewell to the two weary high school buildings so long the heart and soul of that small patch of prairie. All living graduates out of the 3,819 given diplomas over the past 85 years had been summoned...
...That patch of green is now their DMZ. Woody Allen, America's most revered and introspective filmmaker, and Mia Farrow, the waif who matured into a madonna in reel and real life, are at war. What began as a skirmish over custody rights of three children escalated early last week when Allen declared that he was in love with one of Farrow's adopted daughters, Soon-Yi Farrow Previn. Then the tabloid artillery went ballistic. The Connecticut police were investigating a complaint of child molestation against Allen. It was revealed that Farrow discovered the infidelity when she found nude photos...
Tipper Gore also has the advantage of knowing that family values are sometimes arrived at the hard way. Friends say that in the late 1980s the Gore marriage went through a rough patch, strained first by the implacable career focus of a man who has eyed the White House for years, then by the shock of an automobile accident that nearly killed their only...
...patches that help smokers give up cigarettes by delivering nicotine directly through the skin carry a warning that's not to be taken lightly: If you wear the patch, don't smoke. A Massachusetts hospital reports five heart attacks in people who evidently did not follow the advice...