Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...degree few other painters can rival, Bacon convinces you that every stroke and drip counts, that they carry a weight of ethical decision, so that representation is not a matter of filling-in but rather a continual reinvention of the motif. "I use everything from the brushes that sweep the floor to rags. I use everything to remake the images. I am not trying at all to illustrate life." Bacon wants - and generally manages to put - the drama in the paint, not in the narrative. In fact, the best triptychs are not narratives in any decipherable sense...
Above them on one wall hangs a clock with a red sweep second hand. It is the most looked-at object in the room, the beginning and end of an eye-sweep pattern that pans your feet, the head of your line, the head of the line next to yours and damp new arrivals. The clock is the silent monitor of how long it is taking everybody to do one basic thing: to move from the rear of a 150-ft. line to the front, then out of the building or to still another line. There is no "average" time...
Stefani had already made substantial progress by the time he made the T-frame, but it was to be his master stroke, the tactical device that would sweep in the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Union...
Their weekend sweep gives the cagers a 9-13 overall record, and the momentum which should produce victories over Dartmouth, Columbia and Cornell in their final games of the season...
...Crimson varsity hockey team, completing a weekend sweep, demolished Princeton, 10-2, last Saturday at the Tigers Baker Rink to boost its Ivy League record to 8-0. The previous night Harvard edged Pennsylvania, 5-3, in Philadelphia...