Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life. Trained as a sculptor, he never bothered with brushes, instead squished thick layers of paint on masonite boards with palette knives, sometimes sprinkling on gold dust to provide added brilliance. Failing to find much spiritual light in Bowery life, he moved to Venice in 1948. There, he would wait, thinking and absorbing, until the last rays of the afternoon sun shimmered across a canal into his studio; only then would he begin to paint. "Sometimes," he says, "I finished a picture in 20 minutes. It was an explosion...
Captain Mark Mullin's 4,07.0 mile win over Bobby Mack was the top single of the meet. Observers at the finish line saw Mullin and Mack disappear behind the stands on the backstretch barely a step apart, could wait to see who emerged in front. will ever forget the sight of Mullin out around the far turn with five-yard lead...
...Achtung!" (In many U.S. spots, "track" has been supplanted by golfdom's "fore.'') Spanking new lodges in a variety of architectural forms range from swish chalets to high-wayless motels; ski tows and chair lifts whir upward through clearings in the fir trees, queues of skiers wait patiently in the valleys to take dizzying trips to the peaks, only to dash back down to do it all over again...
...perhaps sent upstairs for an hour of penance, who dimly but fearfully perceives the end of her innocence. The picture has charm and-in the dark room, the vacuous expression-a touch of horror. Without luck's greatest blessings, the photographer who wanted to duplicate the painting would wait (for the clear light, for the tilt of the head) longer than it took the artist to learn to paint. And if the explicit drawing had been lost in abstractionist broad-brushing, its power would have been lost...
This encouraged an orgy of business expansion in anticipation of an even more glorious domestic boomu. As a result, imports of machinery became so heavy that by mid-1961, ships were literally queued up in Japan's harbors, sometimes had to wait as long as 30 days to be docked for unloading. This, plus the U.S. recession, which slowed exports, caused Japan's trade deficit to jump to a record $1.5 billion last year...