Word: armes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark, aloof painter had taken one of his models as mistress and fathered a son, the pointillist was a distant, mysterious yet compelling figure. Born the son of a well-to-do but highly eccentric Paris bailiff (who astonished dinner guests by screwing knives and forks into his artificial arm to do the carving), young Seurat got only passing marks from his drawing teacher. On his own, he delved into weighty scientific treatises. Haunting the Louvre's galleries, he tried to analyze the color alchemy of the old masters. What Seurat was working toward was a system that would...
...penalty for out-of-bound kick-offs, to permit ineligible receivers to move downfield as soon as the ball is thrown rather than when first touched by a receiver, to tighten rules against defensive teams interfering with offensive signals, and to limit blockers to contact with only one arm and hand...
...wandering in the misty forest until dusk, the lovers took clippings from their hair and fingernails and wrapped them in white paper as mementos for their families. Okubo changed into a new pair of shoes he had bought for the occasion. Pillowing Aishinkakura's head on his left arm, he shot her in the temple, then killed himself. When their bodies were found, rain had washed away the blood...
...hushed in taut expectancy. All of the familiar intensity was there, and the first notes were luminously clear. But as the aria moved into the upper registers, the voice seemed to darken and tremble. The audience responded with a mixture of hisses and bravos. Callas lifted one thin arm in a furious gesture of contempt...
...voted to change the penalty for out-of-bound kickoffs; to permit ineligible receivers to move downfield as soon as the ball is thrown; to make the existing rule against the defensive team "jamming" opponents' offensive signals more stringent; and to limit players to making contact with only one arm and hand in their blocking assignments...