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  • She ensured that the man once mocked as "Jack the Dripper" had an eminent place in art history.

    A Painter in Her Own Right Jonathan Lopez 2011

  • I'm neither a coffee nor a tea drinker, but my husband recently got the Clever Coffee Dripper from Sweet Marias, and it looks to me as though it would be just as happy brewing tea as coffee.

    Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

  • Your fuel pump goes out in the middle of nowhere and you fill gas into your deer Scrape Dripper and use it like a I.V. straight into the carburetor, You are a redneck gun nut!

    You Might Be a Redneck Gun Nut If . . . 2008

  • Which US artist was nicknamed "Jack the Dripper" because he splashed or threw paint at random on to the canvas?

    September 2007 2007

  • Then in 1947 came the revolutionary paintings that earned him the sobriquet of "" Jack the Dripper. ''

    Tortured Souls 2008

  • No, not much, we decided after two weeks of poring over books about the life and work of the artist known as "Jack the Dripper" and "Action Jackson."

    Archive 2007-08-01 M-mv 2007

  • No, not much, we decided after two weeks of poring over books about the life and work of the artist known as "Jack the Dripper" and "Action Jackson."

    Pollock Sunday M-mv 2007

  • Johns was an aspiring artist, and at the time all the art hipsters were emulating Jackson Pollock -- a.k.a. Jack the Dripper, the man who painted on the floor using a dancing stick to fling pigment -- or Willem de Kooning and his hyperbrushy abstractions.

    Pop Art's Poppa 2007

  • Hey Dripper, the sarcasm doesn't come across well, I'm having trouble understanding your point.

    Hitchens hates Hanukkah. Ann Althouse 2007

  • Forget Jack the Dripper: The pictures are resolutely composed.

    Smooth Around the Edges: Pollock Thrives on Paper 2006

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