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...instrumental trio. Slowly she sheds a shoddy evening gown while the audience yells, "Take it off, Baby, take it off!" When she has stripped down to pure buff, she bumps and grinds for a few minutes, then glides around the circle of ringside tables, stopping whenever a clean-cut, brush-topped young man reaches out to touch-test her salient features...
Despite a commendable effort to brush and polish his fading image, it now seems clear that L.B.J. is destined to occupy the obscure niche reserved for U.S. Vice Presidents during the past 173 years...
...stands silhouetted against a Gothic-American bay window in the empty parlor of an abandoned house. It would have been merely stagy were it not for its brooding strength; and for all their beauty. Chumley's houses and barns would be flat were it not for his lyric brush and the moods it evokes. A painting of three children's swings, hanging empty from a leafless tree, is filled with yesterday's laughter...
...Velde never could afford a model. So he painted the w?omen who paraded through his mind, even as his strength ebbed away from slow starvation. During World War II, living in Paris, he felt so weak that he could not hold a brush, and did not paint at all. "I lived like a phantom." he says. "I wasn't broken, though. I went on living in the work I had done earlier." He searched for handouts and scoured the gutters for cigarette butts. After the war. with the help of new patrons ("a few people for whom...
...held up, inspected, admired, but nothing more. A subject implies something subservient, something that the artist can control but is also responsible for." Gussow's special responsibility is to show his favorite subject, nature, in action. He succeeds admirably. Though his design stays firm, his spontaneous brush strokes make his canvases seem fluid. The effect is just what Gussow is after: "The idea of something happening, the illusion of change...