Word: sputtered
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Elegant and cadaverous, calm and withdrawn behind his beard. Graves does not sputter on reporters' griddles but speaks with sad, cold force. The intense romanticism of his paintings is absent from his public personality. Back in the U.S. for a brief visit last week, he explained that his Spring with Machine-Age Noises series was painted in anger before leaving the U.S. For him it represents the noise of "jets, chain saws, freight trains, trucks, bulldozers" sweeping over a grassy patch...