Word: painted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...round to see Mountains and Sea in Frankenthaler's studio, they were astonished. "It was as if Morris had been waiting all his life for this information," Noland would say later. What they saw was a way to convey the weightless bloom of color without any apparent thickness of paint: light without texture. (Maybe they could have seen it earlier by looking at Turner's watercolors, but never mind: American taste ran to watercolors the size of Guernica.) Though practically no one now buys the '60s' doctrinaire readings of color-field painting -- the arguments, so often lapsing into petty-historicist...
...peaceful character of the sit-in was a tribute to the political skills of the student leaders. When three youths defaced a huge portrait of Mao in the square with blotches of red and black paint, students handed the vandals over to the People's Armed Police for punishment and replaced the portrait. The three best-known leaders of the protest, who proved to be almost as elusive as their political elders meeting in the western hills, are Guo Haifeng, 23, a graduate student in international politics at Peking University; Wang Dan, 20, a history major at Peking University...
Levi was a professional chemist, manager of a paint factory in Turin until he retired at 58 to write, and so he writes from a scientific perspective and with a scientist's precision. But he was also a humanist, a lover of poetry, and these brief essays demonstrate the remarkable range of his interests, from children's games to the genius of Rabelais to the dissatisfactions of playing chess against a computer to the question of why butterflies are considered beautiful. And his mind is agile. When he discovers that the framework of a crinoline gown in the Kremlin museum...
Perhaps his most effective tactic, however, is to paint the mujahedin as pawns of a foreign power. Afghans abhor foreign invaders, and now that the Soviet army has gone, Najibullah has begun harping on how much the rebels are run by Pakistan and the U.S. His case has been helped by recent news accounts that Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto had ordered Lieut. General Hamid Gul, head of Pakistan's military intelligence organization (ISI) to launch the bloody Jalalabad assault. Gul and the ISI are unmistakably doing their best to direct the mujahedin operations, but it seems likely that...
...dawn the 100 students on the seventh floor of the school library still refused to free the five policemen they held hostage. When 20 policemen tried to break into the room, the captors tossed fire bombs at a hallway barricade that they had soaked with kerosene and paint thinner. The raiders were not lucky: six policemen died, and ten were seriously injured...