Word: aqua
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...twelve paintings are arranged in a narrative sequence, reading from left to right, that engulfs the viewer in a virtually full circle. In eight of the panels, the canvas is filled like the sea, with varying washes of aqua and occupied with skeletal and archaic linear motifs of ships that are often obscured by explosions of saturated and fiery color. The exploding forms that litter these canvases surge with textured layers of gold, yellow, orange, magenta, crimson and deep purple that seem to leak and drip like rivulets of blood trickling down the painting’s surface. Many...
...vacation resorts of Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii, the sands are as white and the sky as blue as anyone can remember. As usual, angelfish and sea tortoises swim lazily in the aqua sea; hardened lava cuts a black path down the volcanic mountainsides. Only one thing is missing: crowds of Japanese tourists...
Takeo's doing the parapara, and it seems like just about everyone is following his lead. The sound of parapara is the heavy, synthesized, Eurobeat-style dance music that rules the Japanese charts. (One-hit wonder Aqua beat out Eminem, Britney and Christina Aquilera on the Japanese charts last year.). Trendy teen mags print full-page diagrams showing the motions that have been created for each new parapara song. Nightspots like Tokyo's hugely popular Twinstar distribute their own how-to parapara videos. Elementary school kids perform the moves at school events and, the ultimate Japanese pop-culture imprimatur, even...
...other song, "Turn Back Time," was originally recorded by the Danish group Aqua. In contrast to the group's bubble gum tune "Barbie Girl," Rhone said her rendition of "Turn Back Time" is "serious" and "pretty...
...safe as long as they didn't contain more than a 10% solution of hydroxy acids. They added one important caveat. Since hydroxy acids heighten the skin's sensitivity to ultraviolet radiation, users should always slop on sunscreen (at least SPF 2, higher if you spend much time outdoors). Aqua Glycolic, which has one of the highest concentrations, is modestly priced and available at your neighborhood Wal-Mart...