Word: paint
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...painting of the Loire Valley Château de Lassay that was sold by a Paris gallery last month had a price tag of $6,000. It carried the signature of Painter Bernard Buffet. But neither the price nor Buffet's reputation intimidated the flics, who swooped down on the gallery and legally "seized" the painting, forbidding the purchaser from taking it home. They were acting on a court order obtained by Marcel de Marchéville, owner of the 478-year-old chateau. When a man's castle is his home -and is classified a national monument...
...Brooklyn's wastelands in Bedford-Stuyvesant resemble those along Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh and 14th Street in Washington. Each of the half-forgotten neighborhoods has a bombed-out, end-of-a-war appearance; about all of them lingers the stale odor of moldering plaster and rotting wood. Peeling paint is everywhere; streets glisten with shards of glass from broken windows. Front doors have been ripped from their hinges, and human excrement often litters the stairwells. Interior partitions are punched through, floors broken up and obscene pictures scrawled on the walls. Yet in their essential structure, the hulks are often...
...Anthropologists want to use the Indian for study, and some people use him in order to satisfy their own charitable inclinations by giving him old clothes. We are regarded as unclaimed land, free to be used to the paint of promiscuity," he said...
...heart, an image loaded with visual and literary connotations. In its repetition of the image and its lyric use of warm, watery colors, Rome Hearts can be read as a kind of tone poem. Not surprisingly, perhaps, Dine has also published a volume of his poetry. Like his paintings, his poems are personal, full of discovery, the outpourings of an artist who seems to need to share his joy with the world. "I want to express myself with anything I can get my hands on," he says. "Whether it is words or shoes or paint...
...Reed, Ryder diversified by buying a large stationery wholesaler, a wallpaper company, a paint firm and a company serving the do-it-yourself market. Under Ryder, Reed's sales have climbed from $307 million to $677 million last year, and profits have doubled to $22 million. Now Ryder's primary job will be to cut the publishing company's losses and mesh the disparate parts of the sprawling enterprise. Cudlipp will remain as a deputy chairman and editorial director. "There will be editorial freedom," says Ryder, "but if somebody goes berserk and the profits of the group...