Word: canvasing
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The subject tried to be gracious. It is "a remarkable example of modern art," pronounced Sir Winston Churchill at the unveiling in Westminster Hall in 1954 of his 80th birthday present, a portrait commissioned by Parliament and painted by the famed English neoromanticist Graham Sutherland. But his remark was tongue...
"I'm more appropriately attached to a Campbell's soup can than I am to Marilyn Monroe. You don't look at me as the world's greatest sex symbol," reflects Cincinnati Reds Pitcher Tom Seaver. His remark was à propos of his new portrait by...
Out on the Charles, breezing along past the Boston skyline, the only sounds you hear are the flapping of the canvas sails and the constant slap-slap-slap of water on the hull. Sailboats, after all, are very quiet vehicles. As a rule, so are the people who sail them...
Norton outpointed Young in a 15-round split decision to gain the first shot at Ali. With hands held low, Norton pursued Young around the canvas, methodically pummeling Young's midsection.
In 1956 a group of students introduced bladderball to the New Haven campus when they placed a 12-foot canvas sphere in the center of the Old Campus, Yale's version of Harvard Yard. For the last 20 years, students have struggled valiantly to push, pull and maneuver the ball...