Word: pour
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...average museumgoer, on the other hand, will be mystified by a large gallery full of airy, forgettable abstract canvases. These are meant to support the French thesis that Paris, and not New York, invented abstract expressionism in the 1950s (the French call their version tachisme, or staining). Hélas pour la grandeur, for just the reverse is shown. By comparison with the work turned out by the dynamic U.S. action painters, the French products look timid, prettified and unconvincing?with a few exceptions, most notably the stark abstractions of Pierre Soulages...
Secondly, the New Hampshire victory supplies a convenient smoke screen under which the Johnson forces can pour heavy financial and organizational reserves into Wisconsin and the later primaries. The President was unwilling to appear overly concerned about the McCarthy challenge in New Hampshire. Now his campaign can be couched as a justifiable effort in self-defense rather than an exercise in overkill...
...Viet Nam, twice hitting a vital railroad-highway bridge and power plant in the port city of Haiphong. U.S. planes also kept up relentless pressure on the Communists surrounding the besieged U.S. Marine base of Khe Sanh, though 100 to 300 rounds of mortar and rocket fire continued to pour into the garrison each day. Last week the Marines...
...revival of his 1938 opera Medee, he had just finished incidental music for the Paul Claudel play, L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara, and was starting a new orchestral composition. Meantime, he was looking ahead to a batch of forthcoming performances of his works -including Musique pour Lisbonne, a chamber piece that he has composed especially for this spring's Gulbenkian Festival in that city. As for the New Orleans piece, Milhaud was plainly puzzled; Torkanowsky, he said, had told him only that the performance of it had been "delayed." When the composer heard about Torkanowsky...
Hayes felt that the roads commissioner understood the damage which the DPW-approved Brookline-Elm route, (displacing some 1200 Cambridge families), would do to the City. "He's not one of those hardnosed road people who just wants to pour concrete," Hayes said...