Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tacho had chosen his side in Costa Rica during last spring's civil war. With angry frustration he had watched Figueres...
Propped up in his antique fourposter, with a monocle screwed in his eye, the duke blasts through the open bedroom window at a target on the other side of the patio. After the fusillade, the duke lays down his pistol, ducks into an ice-cold tub. After he has worked himself into his silver-mounted charro (cowboy) outfit, he starts for church on the run, shadow-boxing vigorously...
...first David had represented the young champion of a race-naked, frowning, indomitable, his murderous, swollen-looking right hand hanging loose at his side. The second version, done about 25 years later, had a softer, more subjective air; the boy's body was twisted like a flame and his head bowed dreamily over one shoulder...
When he first turned up in Paris in 1839, the farm boy was a little hard for his art teachers to take. He sat at the back of the life class with a huge paintbox by his side, doing studies three times as big as anyone else's. Instead of pumping his instructors he wandered alone in the Louvre, picked up a lot from looking at Rembrandt and the Spaniards...
...people in the U.S. are painting. Only a few of them are artists . . . The overbalance of the mediocre ... is becoming so alarming and is so detrimental to art and artists in their relation to the public, that the jury feels its duty is to throw its weight on the side of honesty and knowledge...