Word: laboredness
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Armed with house painter's brushes and paints (he could afford no better), he labored with endless preliminary sketches and interminable revisions to build a series of carefully thought out, tense compositions. They were, of course, meant to look as though they had been stroked impetuously on the canvas...
Two Black Widows. King Richard and his men at city hall took comfort from the thought; yet they were badly stung by their critics. Always defensive where Chicago's good name is concerned, Daley and his orderlies last week were close to apoplexy. They labored around the clock on...
Crane was patently a born rebel who delighted in scandalizing his age. But the clearest-and most surprising-picture that emerges from Stallman's meticulous fact-finding is that Crane was not the starving garret poet of popular legend. At his peak, he was well-paid. Convivial and generous...
The African porters, hired by white traders, who first labored their way 300 miles upstream on the Zambezi River called the spot Kebrabasa - "where the work ends." A huge gorge through which the Zambezi flows in the western panhandle of Mozambique, Kebrabasa has always been a dead end. There, according...
Memories of Astarte. Miró has always loathed politics and avoided them. But as a Spaniard who throughout his life has spent most of each year in his native land, he was deeply embittered over the Spanish Civil War. For five months in 1936-37, he labored over one canvas...