Word: abstractedness
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Eisenstein followed a complicated color scheme, attempting to define and use the emotional associations of particular colors. The color in Part II looks convincingly abstracted from reality due mainly to the crude chemistry of early Soviet color film. Sitting through Ivan requires patience.
One of the top art exhibits at the fair, it shows how pre-Columbian goldsmiths of America beat, hammered and cast little miracles of design. For motifs they used the swamp and sea creatures that they knew best-the frog, snake, shark, turtle, crab and crocodile. These ancient masters also...
Passions-abstracted from idiosyncrasy-and places are his concern. Thus the stage settings of his morality plays are important. In his stories, the places people live in are as eloquent of their lives as the words that issue out of their mouths.
Public housing in cities blocks a sense of community in two ways. First, often a project stands completely apart from the area in which it was built. As Jane Jacobs has written, "One of the unsuitable ideas behind projects is the very notion that they are projects, abstracted out of...
Painters have abstracted her. Minor poets have done minor poems about her. In the current Harper's, Penelope Gilliatt, wife of Playwright John Osborne, moons about Marilyn's "innocent and anxious talent'' that was wasted in the Hollywood child-woman fixation: "One sensed that Marilyn Monroe...