Word: striping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...postimpressionists-patch and discontinuity, "arrangement" as against continuous modeling. If The Fifer were a little more abstract, more "Japanese," it would almost be a Van Gogh. At times, Manet's tact in balancing the decorative and the real almost passes belief, an example being the black stripe on the fifer's right leg-swelling and closing with negligent grace, extending the black of the tunic only to stop it an interval above the foot...
Ordinarily the 239-year-old Sotheby's would not be eager to be taken over by an American of any stripe, and particularly not by a real estate magnate like Taubman. Though trained as an architect at the University of Michigan and at the Lawrence Institute of Technology near Detroit, he emphasizes both commerce and art. Says he: "A shopping center is like a department store. First you plan where the merchandise is going to go, then you build architecture around it." That sort of attitude hardly seems suited to Sotheby's, where a cultivated image of exclusivity...
...that, after commanding the ship for 3½ years, he had been recommended for promotion to commodore. Although a civilian pilot was advising Kelly during the harbor entry, the skipper declared, "I am totally responsible for what happened." A Navy investigation will determine whether Kelly's new broad stripe was lost in the mud, along with the proud ship's dignity...
...around. Before long, writers of every stripe, from Dorothy Parker to Clifford Odets, had discovered this fantastic new way to waste their gifts and souls. That, at least, was the story many of them told throughout the '30s and '40s. The figure of the gin-soaked Hollywood sell-out became such a stale literary cliche that it found its way into the movies, where the studios and their hired scribblers could enjoy a hollow laugh at each other's expense...
...crew team experienced a pink April Fool's Day when arriving at the Newell Boathouse last Friday. There they found the Varsity Heavyweight lockers painted entirely pink, numerous other lockers adorned with a pink stripe, and a variety of other pink decorations...