Word: painterly
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...jazz musician. He spent his summers playing the saxophone on the Catskill circuit, even did a hitch at the Juilliard School of Music. His idols were Charlie Parker and Lester Young. But one day Rivers met a girl who had high hopes of becoming a painter. "Enter women," says he of that romance. "That's how it all began...
...fool, and that he is not a very good artist. He gives up the artistic life, as does the hero of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister (Keller, though much influenced by Goethe, himself turned to writing only after a futile try at becoming a painter). His wanderings are over, and he returns home in time to see his mother die, and to build a new career as government functionary...
...Degas' case, the subject was apt to be a ballet dancer; in Soyer's, it might be a young actress, a painter or a seamstress. But all his figures-whether a girl, a member of his family, or even himself-have the same bemused quality. "When people are by themselves, they begin to look like that, ' he explains. "Even in a crowd, they walk against you without seeing you,' their expression a kind of moody emptiness " Soyer's people live in a world of subdued color, curbed motion and meticulous design; yet they brim with...
...painful descent, and Norman Mailer was painfully aware of it ("Self-pity is one of my vices"). Soon telltale signs of instability began to appear. He quarreled with his editors, darkly accused the typesetters of deliberately mutilating his words. His second marriage, to Adele Morales, a lush Peruvian-Spanish painter and actress, fluctuated from serenity in the morning to raging public brawls at night. Usually an affable man, Mailer became morose and belligerent. In Provincetown last summer he was jailed after a fight with police that began when he hailed a prowl car under the impression that...
...last week, the Mexican government yielded a little to the hunger strikers, conditionally freed 19 small-fry railroad workers illegally held for 20 months, but released none of the important Reds. Grateful for the out, Siqueiros and his other hungry comrades gave up the strike and the painter started sipping consommé and apple sauce every three hours...