Word: painterly
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...Irving had lived there off and on during the '50s. Now he made his home there in an exotically primitive colony of artists and writers and international posers. Fay soon drifted away; they were divorced in 1965. In 1967 he married Edith, a German-born abstract painter who had fled to Ibiza after her divorce from a businessman in Wuppertal, Germany. Edith and Clifford had two sons, Ned and Barnaby...
...said that Edith, an abstract painter, has the business sense in the family. She is a gay, spontaneous woman with long, dark-blonde hair. Throughout the siege, she has maintained her wit and poise. "If I'd taken that $650,000," she joked at one point, "do you think I'd be sitting here with this man?" There are even those who subscribe to a Lady Macbeth scenario of the Hughes affair...
...America. As Zooey Glass said, "I was born here. I went to school here. I've been run over here ... I have no business in Europe." I lived in New England for a while, a la Salinger. But unless you're a writer or a turtleback painter or something, you want somebody to talk to. Or else you feel like calling up dead authors all the time...
Reminders of Debt. Personable "Maury" Stans leaves behind a proudly pro-Establishment record. He rarely turned down an invitation to lecture a friendly businessmen's audience on the marvels of old-fashioned capitalism, which included his own rise from house painter's son to millionaire accountant. He gladly took up the cause of almost any businessman who was unhappy with Washington. As an influential Cabinet member, Stans argued strongly against federal adoption of a no-fault auto-insurance plan, against the ban on DDT and against a presidential commission's advice to junk the oil-import quota...
...shapes and stripes. Leslie thinks of his work in partly ethical terms. "I think," he reflects, "it was Balzac who said that when art begins to decay it is always realism that comes to the rescue. This is why we must fight for the restoration of the realistic painter's rights-why I feel that I have to paint from life, to restore, at least in myself, the power to see things at first hand. There is a direct relationship between what we see and the quality of life...