Word: washing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more likely than not the job will go to someone like Douglas Paul, a copywriter-turned-actor who has fat, freckles and a grandiose nose. Among Paul's starring roles: an Arrow Shirt commercial in which he stands stripped to the waist in a Laundromat, takes his wash 'n' wear shirt out of the dryer, nonchalantly puts it on and swaggers out the door through a crowd of oohing, aahing housewives...
...first group of mature works, the so-called "veils" and "florals," date from 1954 through 1960. The overlapping washes of transluscent Magna (acrylic) colors on the unsized, white canvas produce a veil-like form whose colors, although rich and sensuous, seem to mystically dematerialize like shifting, almost gaseous, vapors into the texture of the canvas. One wash of color is applied over another, but the transparency allows all the layers to come forward simultaneously. The visual effect is breathtakingly beautiful and bewildering at the same time. As the viewer becomes involved with a specific passage, he feels that...
...carry the burden of Louis' whole message. He was a cubist and linear abstractionist for most of his life, but on a 1953 visit to New York, he saw Abstractionist Helen Frankenthaler experimenting with poured paint. Captivated, he abandoned brushes altogether, began thinning his paint, allowing it to wash in great waves down huge canvases. The resulting panoramas became his celebrated "veils of color...
...Broadcasting Co. into a $2 billion telecommunications company was a good idea. Last week the FCC changed its mind. The reason for the reversal was simple: the merger is being strongly protested by the Justice Department's antitrust division - an agen cy that easily outranks the FCC in Wash ington's hierarchy. Bowing to the anti trust division's argument that the ITT-ABC merger might impede competition and open ABC public affairs pro gramming to pressure from ITT's foreign customers, the FCC, by a 4-to-O vote (with three commissioners abstaining), called...
...then proceeds to extricate a Government official (Lee J. Cobb) from a conspiracy of vixens who try to take over the world. The gals' roguery includes a rogues' gallery of corrupt generals. Their weaponry consists of thousands of dryers installed in beauty parlors around the world to wash women's brains along with their hair...