Word: brushed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...once]-contour, matiere, surface, color, line, all in the same stroke." Thus Paris Painter Pierre Soulages, at 37 a roaring commercial success and winner of several international art prizes, describes the effort behind his huge, bulking canvases-massive, broad strokes of dark paint laid on the light background with brush, board, strips of leather and cardboard to make a bold structural pattern that is now his signature and trademark...
...time of crisis, the troops will be airlifted 1,000 miles from Kenya to Aden, to pick up the heavy vehicles and weapons stored there for them (thereby saving the cost of a new base in Kenya). The new force is designed primarily to deal with trouble or brush-fire rebellions in such oil-rich domains as Bahrein and Kuwait or in the string of other British protectorates to whose defense Britain is committed by treaty. An attack on Britain's Baghdad Pact allies-Turkey, Iran. Iraq and Pakistan-would require a far wider response than Aden could provide...
Wyeth himself would have laughed at being compared in any way to the old masters. Not Ovid or the Apostle John, but men such as Daniel Defoe, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson and Jules Verne inspired his brush. He painted for children chiefly-half the time for the publishing house of Scribner, which has sold some 1,700,000 of his "Illustrated Classics," from Treasure Island (1911) to The Yearling (1939). Thirteen are still in print, and the set as a whole is a living monument to a magnificent artist...
...small, local wars, where sheer numerical superiority works to the advantage of Communist aggressors, the smaller countries could defend themselves with tactical nuclear weapons, without embroiling the United States in the conflict. This would be a valuable alternative to America's "massive retaliation" against Soviet targets, as reprisal for brush-fire skirmishes, while the provision for central control would prevent a nation's using the weapons for purposes not approved by the Alliance...
...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...