Word: splashing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether they splash haphazardly or brush minutely, abstract expressionists have one basic common bond: a conscious disregard for subject matter. Yet this week, at the generally abstract Signa Gallery in East Hampton, N.Y., a show of oils (and a few sculptures) by abstraction's top disciples is grouped under one unifying theme of content-"The Human Image...
...election-year splash of generosity, the Senate last week passed a $2.5 billion omnibus housing bill, about $1 billion bigger than the President requested. Piled atop the antirecession housing program enacted earlier this year, the new measure (which the House will probably trim a bit) brought the Senate's total 1958 housing appropriation to a dizzying $4.3 billion...
...federal red-ink splash "of the order of $10 billion." said President Eisenhower at his press conference last week, lies ahead in the newborn fiscal year of 1959. It was a rueful admission for a President who had pledged himself to balanced budgets as an essential goal, and who half a year ago submitted an optimistic 1959 budget showing a $500 million surplus...
Even Judge Wyzanski barely jumped away from the splash of Goldfine's friendly money. Last November, while he patiently sorted out the complex Boston Port operations, Wyzanski spent an evening with his wife at one of her fund-raising benefits, this one for the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Who should turn up-and make a $1,000 contribution "in honor of Mrs. Wyzanski"-but Bernard and Charlotte Goldfine, whom the Wyzanskis had never met socially. With an air of innocent enthusiasm, Mrs. Goldfine bustled over to say that her husband had made the gift "because he admires your wife...
...black B-26 turned out to sea after bombing the Indonesian port of Amboina, guns opened up from ground installations and government patrol boats in the harbor. The B-26 shuddered, and two men bailed out before it died in a splash of sea spray. One, an Indonesian rebel, was fished out of the water. The other got his parachute fouled in a palm tree on a coral reef, and, in freeing himself, fell to the ground and broke his right thigh. For the Indonesians, he was an impressive catch. His name: Allen Lawrence Pope. Nationality: U.S.A. Florida-born Allen...