Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranging lone wolf of Mexican art, Painter Rufino Tamayo, his country's greatest modernist, has never hesitated to deliver outspoken blasts at Marxism. In Mexico's Red-dominated art world, this earned him some formidable foes; chief among them, naturalistic Muralist Diego Rivera. Just as they, clashed over politics, Communist Rivera and Tamayo, who wears no political label, disagreed about art: Tamayo shied away from Rivera's hard-lined propagandist works, and Rivera had no love for Tamayo's warm-toned semiabstractions. For 20 years the two artists have exchanged few kind words. Last week Tamayo...
...intense, square-jawed Chinese artist stared fixedly at the rice paper taped to the wall, his wolf-and-goat-hair brush poised in his hand like a dart. Suddenly he reached to the top of the paper, in four bold downward strokes brushed in four broad segments of a bamboo stalk. He quickly dipped the brush again in the porcelain bowl of mixed water and ink, drew a long soaring line in one continuous, caressing gesture to form the narrow bamboo shoot, then rapidly brushed in the broad leaves. In two minutes, 40 seconds the painting was completed. As Huang...
...serious business of the evening resumed as a little man puffing a used cigar came stamping up the aisle. We recognized him as the Mayor, who announced himself as "the big bad wolf of the Cambridge School Committee." He went on in this vein, advised citizens to "give Eddy your first place vote," and to vote yes on both referendums being considered...
...scheme of his own regarding drainpipes, and that no Soviet citizen should ever, if he values his security, "get in the way of influential people." As Bureaucrat Drozdov, the novel's villain, tells Lopatkin: "Your mistake consists in being an individual on his own. The lone wolf is out of date." To his wife Nadia. Drozdov is even franker. "Whenever [Lopatkin] came to see me," he says, "he always held his head like this" -and Drozdov throws his head up in a proud, arrogant gesture...
Garden View. In Portishead, England, Simon Finder requested a lower tax assessment on his property, which is near a navy school, because his wife "cannot sit in the garden without provoking numerous wolf whistles and peculiar looks...