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...every Saturday afternoon in winter she cleans her Manhattan apartment to the broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera, only to run into serious dusting dilemmas. "If I were not saddled with the Metropolitan, I would clean in the following order: straighten up the room, dust Venetian blinds, clean window sills, brush lampshades and upholstered furniture, dust surfaces, mop floor, vacuum rugs . . . This order makes sense: it chases the dirt from above to below. But operas don't work this...
...bottom of a pile of some 60 dusty paintings a gloomy landscape that could have been painted by El Greco. Beneath the grime of nearly 100 years of neglect, the picture proved to be the long sought masterpiece. Said one of Madrid's Prado Museum officials: "The brush strokes of El Greco are inimitable, unmistakable. I say it, the director says it, the restorers say it. The picture is El Greco." Valued at $100,000, it will now hang once again in the Real Colegio del Corpus Christi...
...Kenedy, made themselves a big stake by transporting cargo upriver by boat as far as skilled captains and sound bottoms could navigate. In 1852 King made an overland trip from Brownsville to Corpus Christi, was fascinated by the lush grass where the Wild Horse Desert grew green along the brush-lined bends of Santa Gertrudis Creek. Soon afterwards, he deserted the river for ranching. By the time the Civil War broke out, Rancher King was spreading his holdings steadily, a business tactic that had been taught him by a lieutenant colonel of cavalry named Robert...
Buccaneer's Rush. With the canvas well primed. Mathieu paused to swig down a frothing glass of Japanese beer while assistants propped the work up against the wall. Then, glaring like a buc caneer about to board ship, he kicked at the debris of brushes, tubes and bottles, plunged one brush into a bowl of white paint, grasped a second brush in his teeth, and rushed at the canvas. A white cross with red outline appeared on one side, a yellow squiggle on the other...
...returned to the beer and charged again. Aiming a 5-ft. brush like a lance, he carved broad, pink lines running the length of the 25-ft. canvas. From then on, the battle raged with such fury that Mathieu was soaked in paint, turpentine and sweat. Soon the Japanese, usually polite before foreigners, were roar ing with laughter, shouting delightedly after each stroke...