Word: scrapings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tamayo's answer was to scrape his palette clean, begin using grey and white. He used color sparingly in small splashes of gold, red, lavender and cerulean blue; he switched from his usually thin paint surfaces, often done in Vinylite, to full-bodied oils thickly applied to gain surface richness. What remains the same is Tamayo's distinctive approach, which can assault the senses with all the fury of a maddened cat, shift to grotesque satire, or acquire the quality of jagged hallucination as in his Phantasma (see cut') which depicts a phosphorescent feminine specter who seems...
...bloody washout in which the baby is thrown out with the bathwater and devil take all. Talk about Rights. What Rights? Then I will tell you . . . the right of an Englishman true-born and free to get his beer and baccy, his Java, bread and scrape, plum-and-apple, cut off the joint and choice of two veg . . . good things sent in plenty from heaven above but niggled into pigeon holes by charity charlies with scrag-end notions of that arithmetical dead loss and bad debt...
...early postwar years, Niarchos saw the bright future of international trade and plunged into shipping with every drachma he could scrape together while most shipowners were battening hatches to ride out an expected slump. In ten years. Niarchos has not only built his fleet-and a fortune estimated as high as $350 million-but has helped revolutionize the design, financing and operation of tankers, launching a new race of giant ships that is fast changing the economics of merchant marines the world over...
Grievous Harm. Last week razors were out again at the entrance to a nightclub off Berkeley Square. This time the cutting scrape involved one Tommy Falco, known to be a close friend of Billy Hill, who was just leaving the club, and−once again−Jack Spot, who, according to Tommy, jumped out at him from a darkened doorway and worked him over. At week's end, fingered by Falco, Jack Spot was in jail on charges of "causing grievous bodily harm," and Scotland Yard breathed slightly easier. "If we can just get Spot sent...
Between chukkers of a polo game played at Windsor Great Park, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II had a word with her hard-riding husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, while Prince Charles and Princess Anne stood by. Later touring Devonshire, the Queen and her consort had a close scrape when a roadside throng, pressing forward to see the royal pair, toppled a badly anchored 20-ft. flagpole across the highway only a moment after the Queen's open car had passed the spot...