Word: blotch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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William James Hall is "a white blotch on the skyline" and Larsen Hall a "fortress turned away from the world." according to an article in the Boston Sunday Herald Magazine...
...Hawaii's outer-island hotels [July 23] will easily draw the intelligent tourist away from the cellblock gun-turret piles that corrupt Waikiki and blotch the lovely profiles of Diamond Head and Punchbowl. A few of our developers care for Honolulu, once one of the world's beautiful cities; the rest are feverishly changing it into the architectural junkyard of the Pacific...
...shape is usually differentiated from the surface of the canvas by the line enclosing the shape. A black line or a black blotch on a white surface creates the illusion of "relief," just as surely as a seated figure seems separate from the picture plane. The painters of the exhibit tend to reject relief and explicit bounding lines in favor of a more homogeneous surface area. Paint is exploited for its own abstract properties. The colored surfaces imply nothing but colored surfaces, demanding the viewer's interest solely in the value of their interrelationship...
...delights of sweet anticipation," growled Cannon. "But now we are gnawing on the cold corncob of stern reality." For example, only a year ago Kennedy submitted a 1963 budget indicating a surplus of $500 million; that wishful bit of black ink has since changed into a massive blotch of red, currently estimated at $8.8 billion. With that in mind, Virginia Democrat Harry F. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, predicted that the actual deficit under the President's 1964 budget would run to $14 billion...
...taste, by far the most beautiful painting was a large canvas with a garden of 63 (Nelson counted them at the opening) poppies on a pink blotch. The colors of this are delicate pastels and each poppy looks like no more than two or three perfectly drawn strokes...