Word: tartness
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...Tart Colors. Success was slow in coming. Born in 1893 in Altmar, N.Y., Avery spent his youth in Hartford, Conn., and never gave art a thought until he heard that commercial artists could make $200 a week-a princely income in those days. He enrolled-at the Y.M.C.A. The lettering course was full, and so he signed up for a drawing class instead. It was his only formal training, but it was enough: he had fallen in love with art. In 1925, he joined an artist's colony at Gloucester, Mass., where he met another aspiring young artist named...
There are similarities, to be sure. Color was the mainspring for both artists, and both treated objects as elements in a pattern. But there are also profound differences. Where Matisse's colors are voluptuous, ripe, filled with the warmth of the Mediterranean, Avery's are tart, eccentric, northern. "Matisse was a hedonist," Sally observes. "Milton was a puritanical man of very simple tastes." His uniquely charming celebration of the world around him, with its dry mirth and insistent individuality, is the legacy of an artist who was in every sense strictly...
...feet to ask why the Kremlin had permitted publication of an article in a new Soviet industrial newspaper that referred to Taiwan as a "country." Peking had protested the reference as evidence of Soviet-American collusion against the Communist Chinese, who claim Taiwan as their very own. A tart exchange ensued...
...Attorney General John Mitchell's dour podsnappery as Southern strategist and antidissenter cheers the forces of law and order and dismays liberals. Mitchell himself has remained as invisible as before. But his wife Martha has emerged as one of the dominant figures on the Washington scene, and her tart tongue has enlivened a lot of cocktail parties (see box, page...
...closest domestic adviser. Friends report that she invariably keeps the Attorney General waiting while she primps for an evening out, and that he greets her appearance with an unruffled "Hi, gorgeous." The most vocal of all the Cabinet members' wives, Mrs. Mitchell does not hesitate to offer her tart views, as she demonstrated in a recent interview with'TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer...