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Kline's outlook on both painting and drawing is very different. His reputation is based on the development of a broad swinging stroke that varies in texture--in Rocker he reduces a chair to its fundamental elements with a few diagonal and horizontal black strokes. Some of Guston's single stroke drawings make use of a similar technique...

Author: By Ira Fink, | Title: Taming Action Painting | 3/4/1975 | See Source »

...heading for 1-70. Sometimes Ronda and Sheree joined me, but we made no demands on each other and they could be no different from solitude. The interstate circles around town a ways, before heading toward open country. It cleaves the dilapidated edge off of Topeka with one arching stroke, and clapboard shanties flank it like chips nicked from the blighted elm trees and dusty earth all around. When the highway beads clear of the shanties, the Kansas River sidles up to it instead, with grain elevators on its banks. Just past city limits, my car radio falls silent...

Author: By Anemona Hartocolhs, | Title: In the '55 Mercury | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

Moore and Borden will wind up the relay and compete in the breaststroke events Moore will handle the duties in the 100-yard breath stroke while Borden will take of the 50-yard breastroke...

Author: By Kathleen T. Riley, | Title: Five to Swim at Penn Today, Carry "Cliffe's Eastern hopes | 3/1/1975 | See Source »

Stefani had already made substantial progress by the time he made the T-frame, but it was to be his master stroke, the tactical device that would sweep in the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Union...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: A Small Revolution in the Kitchens | 2/28/1975 | See Source »

...went on to become a heroic brandy drinker and Prime Minister. With double irony in his title, Churchill speculates on what might have happened in If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg. After Lee's victory, Churchill notes, the Confederate general's brilliant stroke of freeing the slaves cut away the moral underpinning of the Union cause. Could Lee actually have forced such a measure on the South? Could the Confederacy, England and the rest of the Commonwealth, banding together as the Association of English Speaking Peoples have imposed peace by fiat on Europe and thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Byron's Wooden Leg | 2/24/1975 | See Source »

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