Word: spattered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public, three private). Fifteen trees of different and exotic species ranging up to 18 feet tall wave in the breeze, and $50,000 worth of foliage, from cheese plants to Ficus trees, crowd the Mies chairs and Johnson tables. The walls are covered with an original Jackson Pollock spatter painting called Blue Poles, three surrealistic tapestries by Joan Miró, a stage curtain painted by Picasso...
Next day, at the opening of the fourth annual SEATO Council, a spatter of trouble briefly threatened to mar the shining anti-Communist surface of the eight-nation South East Asia Treaty Organization.* Pakistan's Mozaffar Ali Khan Qizil-bash briskly demanded more U.S. aid, implied that his country might turn to the Soviet Union if its demands were not met. He warned: "Distinction must be made between friends and those who sit on the fence. While the latter are the recipients of large-scale aid from both Communist and Western countries, the former have to depend on their...
...nearly two hours the models perform their ritualistic dance, ending with the traditional wedding dress. Then, with a spatter of conventional applause, the audience erupts from the gilt seats and flows down upon the black-clad vendeuses stationed at every step on the stairway. Each buyer has her personal vendeuse, each vendeuse her jealously guarded clients. Many will return later to make their decisions. But others, momentarily unhinged, corral their vendeuses, rush off to a grey-curtained alcove, get out of their street dresses and demand to try on themselves one of the creations they have just seen modeled...
That was Pollock's one big contribution to the slosh-and-spatter school of postwar art, and friend and foe alike crowded the exhibition in tribute to the champ's prowess. They found a sort of proof of his claims to fame in the exhibition catalogue, which lists no less than 16 U.S. and three European museums that own Pollock canvases. But when it came down to explaining just what Pollock was up to, the critics retreated into a prose that rivaled his own gaudy drippings. Items...
...ebon-black door marked "10." Choking the narrow street but held back to a respectful distance by alert bobbies were crowds of Londoners whose suspenseful interest in the drama was drawn taut by the lack of printed news caused by a newspaper strike (see PRESS). At 8:30 a spatter of rain caught the crowd's attention, for a moment, and just then, a bobby stepped up to the closed door. He knocked lightly to herald the approach of royalty, just turning the corner in a huge red-and-black Rolls. Instantly the historic door was flung open...