Word: wet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deep. It was never simple for Pollock. Friends saw him, a cigarette smoldering on his lip, emerge from his studio limp as a wet dishrag. In 1953 Pollock took up brushes again, using his drip technique less and less frequently, to produce his last spurt of genius. In Portrait and a Dream, he showed the dichotomy between the monochrome meandering of his somnolent mind and the colorful mask of his own waking self. In Easter and the Totem, he paired a budding lily with a brown bullet totem that juts into the canvas from the left. He painted The Deep...
...were just behind you, he'd get totally wiped out. You are so far back inside the wave that it breaks right over your head and around your body. And when you come out in the end, why, you aren't even wet...
...Wet & Dark." Guiding P.G. & E. on its fast upward climb is its new president, Robert H. Gerdes, 59, a lean, shy lawyer whose voice sounds like Jimmy Stewart's. Gerdes joined P.G. & E. in 1929, worked mainly on legal and financial affairs before replacing Norman Sutherland as president last July (Sutherland died a few weeks later from cancer-TIME, Sept. 13). Though a native Californian, Gerdes has a utility man's notions about the profitability of bad weather. "We like it wet and dark," he says, "and the colder the better...
BRUNO LUCCHESI-Forum, 1018 Madison Ave. at 79th. The new bronzes of this Italian-born New Yorker, a 1962 Guggenheim fellow, sparkle with candid spontaneity: washerwomen gossip over wet rags, a child quivers on stilts, a peasant Girl Tying Apron seems to be doing the twist. What continually threatens Lucchesi's suspended animations is a manneristic overdose of whimsy. Through...
...psychiatrist who knew the lingo could make a million at the track. Some race horses love mud; others sulk if they get their hooves wet. All horses are brought up on grass, but that does not mean they can run on it. Nobody knows why, or ever will-unless he can talk to horses...