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These "breakthrough" paintings, as Rothko himself called them, with their thick layers of paint laid on with big brushes purchased at a hardware store, give the lie to the critic Clement Greenberg's influential claim that Rothko "seems to soak his paint into the canvas to get a dyer's effect and avoid the connotations of a discrete layer of paint on top of the surface."
She studied the First Amendment with "Tommie the Commie" Emerson and was seen around the "influential circle of Robert Borosage," later connected to the Institute for Policy Studies which "promoted pro-Soviet movements in the Third World at the height of the renewed Cold War."
The judge, a good ol' Texas boy and a friend of George's politically influential daddy, purged the record.
Posts in these commands became prized assignments for ambitious officers, and the voices of their five commanders in chief became as influential as those of the service chiefs.
If Godard doesn't turn out to be the most influential filmmaker of the last year, then John Hughes will.