Word: paint
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...restraint snapped. Screaming like men who have been too long silent, Moslem mobs flooded the narrow lanes of the casbah. From under thin mattresses and floor boards came hundreds of forbidden flags of the F.L.N. rebels-green-and-white banners bearing a red crescent and star. In bright green paint, slogans were splashed on any and every convenlent wall: "The F.L.N. Forever," "Long Live Ferhat Abbas," "Long Live Moslem Algeria...
...scholarship application from Kampala, Uganda. The school heard from him again this fall, when he sent a letter that began: "In October of the year of our Lord 1958, I began a journey-a long and difficult journey-a journey to glory or death." The letter went on to paint a picture of a youngster so hungry for a U.S. education that he had walked 2,500 miles across Africa to find one. This week Kayira and Skagit will see each other at last...
...purpose, and before long he is thrown out of school for mischiefmaking. He has a knack for sketching and, still in his middle teens, decides to become an artist. The rest of the vast novel is his own rambling, episodic, thoughtful account of his struggles to learn how to paint. Keller is no sentimentalist, but his narration is cluttered with most of the furniture of the sentimental novel-the childhood love who dies of consumption, the mother who starves herself to buy her son's art supplies, and the chance meeting, when all seems darkest, with the count...
...Cleopatra by Philadelphia-born Man Ray, a couple of dreamy street scenes by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico. Among the younger artists, none were equal in quality, and some seemed to be more action painters than surreal. Robert Rauschenberg's Bed -sheets, pillow and quilt daubed with paint-and Jasper Johns's Target, with its anatomical sculptures, including a penis, were merely repulsive...
Large quantities of paint in the building caused special problems for the men. Intense heat and toxic fumes made work inside the building difficult. It took nearly two and half hours to get the fire under control. Two firemen, Ralph H. Underwood and Gerald M. Sears, suffered injuries. Underwood had a broken hand while Sears suffered from smoke inhalation...