Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AVERY'S SUBJECTS manifest this energy because he forms them with lines that breathe and kick and cry with the force of a newborn child. In his drypoint "Umbrella by the Sea" (1948), he expresses the size and movement of an ocean by the spacing and fluidity of the line alone. In the foreground he makes his lines wide and gently curving, like lapping waves, gradually becoming choppier as he moves out to sea. Then lines become crowded, quick slashes of his stylus. In the same way, in his three reclining nudes (1939, 1941 and 1948), the surety...
...correspondents' dispatches, plus 500,000 highly specialized file folders containing countless millions of newspaper and magazine clippings (sample subjects: children's motels, underwater painting, women astronauts). There are also some 75,000 books, including all standard reference works and such useful exotica as A History of the Umbrella and A Dictionary of Angels...
...Neill called Watergate an "umbrella overshadowing Republican candidates." On the local level, public reaction to the scandal will be aimed only at the Republicans, he said, and not at incumbents as a whole...
Jobert's obstinacy illustrates a French habit of creating diplomatic disturbances in order to be noticed. France could not have survived World War II without U.S. military aid, and today France is still dependent on our nuclear umbrella...
...flee. A good many of the Children took their own advice, removing themselves also from the scrutiny of New York State's attorney general, whose charity frauds bureau last month issued a 23-page report on the sect and recommended that its questionable activities come "under the umbrella of state regulation and scrutiny...