Word: painted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average speed of 1,525.95 m.p.h., as measured by radar, tracking cameras and two men lying on their backs on the desert, sighting upward past tight-stretched wires that marked start and finish. The metal skin of the F106 touched 340°F.; a lot of its grey paint was burned off, and its Air Force insignia bubbled and blistered. It landed with almost empty tanks, but it had beaten Russia's record of 1,483.83 m.p.h...
...Negro who helped build it is descended from a builder of the Pyramids. His handshake sets the theme for the whole: friendship, love and earned reward. It is a surprisingly happy picture for Koerner, but more important is the fact that in an age when few even try to paint deep space, he has painted it so well as to bring even the most reluctant viewer straight inside the picture. In the foreground, like a sunny signature he has put his own self-portrait with his wife, daughter an grandmother...
...public, the U.S. drug industry would like to appear as a dedicated, white-coated scientist skillfully brewing one wonder drug after another. But Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, chairman of the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, long has had ambitions to paint a different picture -of an industry that fixes prices too high. Last week, opening an investigation of drugmakers, the Keef got in his broad strokes as soon as nervous industry witnesses settled uncomfortably in their hot seats...
Asked to do a mural in the coffee room of the Municipal Museum, Appel responded by blobbing all four walls and the ceiling with brilliant colors, thus placing the coffee sippers within a napping tent of a picture. "How could a person paint that happy and be Dutch?" wondered an admiring American. The next year Appel left Holland. Now, married to a Dutch model, sought after by collectors, he prospers mightily in Paris, has been accepted as an officer in good standing in the hierarchy of international expressionism. His work hangs in Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...From London (where he moved in 1859), Whistler deployed his canvases like troops in this avant-garde campaign. The fury to which he goaded proper Victorians bubbled over in 1877 when Ruskin, the reigning art pundit of the day, wrote that Whistler was "a coxcomb, flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." At a farcical libel trial in which one of Whistler's paintings was displayed upside down and the jury mistook a Titian for a Whistler, the painter won damages of 1 farthing...