Word: painterly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Then began the hunt. From witnesses, artists drew a composite picture of the robber. Eight months after the robbery, police finally nabbed a prime suspect: a 57-year-old professional painter named Sadamichi Hirasawa. Hirasawa first admitted his guilt, then retracted the confession. He was tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang...
...judge might have a point. Hirasawa insisted that the repudiated confession was extracted from him by torture in a brutal nonstop interrogation; later, the painter's two sons-in-law claimed that he was playing cards with them at the time of the robbery. Only two of the 40 eyewitnesses of the crime positively identified Hirasawa as the robber-and both were increasingly unsure as the trial wore on. The only clue pointing to Hirasawa was the calling card of the supposed health inspector, which the robber had left behind in the bank; handwriting experts determined that the writing...
Last November state officials moved the painter from Tokyo prison to remote, unheated Miyagi Detention House in northern Japan-where all Japanese executions are carried out. "He was moved up there to die, but not by hanging," says one of his supporters. "The government hopes he'll die up there faster of natural causes, because Miyagi is cold and unhealthy. That way, they can keep his blood off their hands officially...
During his protean career, John Huston, 56, has been a boxer, cavalryman, painter, writer and Hollywood director of such classics as The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen and Freud. What next? The ever restless Huston will soon move in front of the camera -to play the Boston Irish Cardinal Glennon in Otto Preminger's film, The Cardinal. Snorted a poker-playing crony: "The only problem is getting the robes off him when the movie's finished. He'll be pax vobiscuming all over the joint...
...show at the Guggenheim was put together mainly from the museum's own impressive collection of Kandinskys, from the Gabriele Münter Foundation of the Stadtische Galerie in Munich (which now owns the Kandinskys collected by his pupil and onetime beloved, Painter Gabriele Münter), and the collection of Nina Kandinsky, the artist's widow, who lives in France. But Director Thomas Messer pulled off an even more impressive coup of roundupmanship: with the help of Mme. Kandinsky and Paris' Musée National d'Art Moderne, he engineered delicate negotiations with Moscow, bringing...