Word: pollock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Small Satisfaction. Pitt's potential heroes faded like shooting stars. Hobbled by a bad leg, Left End Joe Walton did next to nothing. Tough Tackle Bob Pollock managed a jarring shot at Mountaineer Fullback Krutko, forced him to fumble and set up the first Pitt score. For the rest of the game he was far from a terror. Pitt's quarterbacks, Darrell Lewis and Corny Salvaterra, made Michelosen's pre-game moaning seem prophetic. But late in the third quarter, Pitt recovered another fumble and scored once more. Again they converted, and that kick meant the difference...
Died. Jackson Pollock, 44, bearded shock trooper of modern painting, who spread his canvases on the floor, dribbled paint, sand and broken glass on them, smeared and scratched them, named them with numbers, and became one of the art world's hottest sellers by 1949; at the wheel of his convertible in a side-road crackup near East Hampton...
...nation's most influential art teachers likes to fling these fighting words into the teeth of the abstract-expressionist storm. Josef Albers, chairman of the design department at Yale, clearly deplores self-expression of the big, drippy, half-conscious sort made chic by Jackson Pollock & Co. "What we need is less expression and more visualization," he says. "I try to teach my students to visualize...
Yale taste ranges generously over 500 years of art, from Hans Memling's Annunciation, El Greco's Christ Bearing Cross and Rembrandt's Gèrard de Lairesse, all owned by Manhat tan Financier Robert Lehman ('13), to such high-velocity moderns as Jackson Pollock's Wounded Beast, 1943, owned by lectors' Art taste Critic is most Thomas B. accurately Hess ('42). reflected by But the current heavy U.S. corncetration in 19th and 20th century European masters. Top favorite: Picasso (seven paintings), followed by Degas, Braque, Cèzanne, Delacroix, Renoir, Van Gogh...
...taking anti-clotting drugs after a heart attack was only one-third to one-half what it was among those who were taken off the drugs. This evidence convinced Dr. White, who at first opposed the treatment for the President. Two U.S. Army cardiologists, Colonels Thomas Mattingly and Byron Pollock, who have both used it for years, were its advocate...