Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come to Washington to get things done. But his brashness, his refusal to kowtow to his Senate elders, were obviously rendering him ineffective. And late one night, in a moment of truth, Hubert Humphrey confided to a friend: "I'm going to stop kicking my foot against the wall...
...friends would tell her. Then last week Senior City Councilor Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales took an olfactory tour of Hong Kong in a helicopter and pronounced that even from 300 feet up the place stank. The government promised that Gin Drinkers' Bay will be contained by a new wall next month and that the first of two big, modern incinerators will start work early next year...
...lithography. Now, graphic artists print from almost anything almost any way. Sid Hammer, 38, produces his blocks by melting vinyl, as plain as kitchen flooring, with a hot incising iron. "My graphics," says he, "have the sensation of handwriting on a sponge." The handwriting ends up on the wall for less than $100. In Hawaii recently, an art student produced an edition of 16-ft.-long prints off incised Masonite. He wanted to illustrate the history of Oahu on a large scale. Graphics no longer are limited by the size of presses...
Mama Meg comes to the rescue in a high declamatory style that would send a deaf-mute up the wall. Untoppable and unstoppable in a slanging natch, she routs the foxy old camp director and triumphantly bears Joseph off, clucking: "Did your mother ever let you down? Will you please learn to put your last buck down on this baby...
...sophisticated French pursuit of paint as paint-tachisme, art brut, or art informel-Spaniards such as Tàpies brought robust energy. They not only painted the wall; they made walls. They slashed and splattered their canvases, then stitched and bandaged them up. Their palettes were a tinker's delight, making Jackson Pollock's drip technique seem like polite pottering. And out of that impulse grew the whole movement (see color pages). Some of the comers...