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Word: bluer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...physical construction; light designer Ryan McGee '98 and set designers Mike DeCleene '98 and Dave Levy '00 have done interesting and creative work in a sparse setting. Lighting changes mark shifts in the movement from Yerma's inner world to the social world in which she lives: a cooler, bluer air surrounds her interactions in the social world. The outside world is marked from the world inside Yerma and Juan's house, and a warm orange light for her beautiful dreams of children. reminiscent of the dreamlike color and warmth of the womb, or the "blood-stream...

Author: By Y. SUSANNAH R. mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dark, Small Magic in a Quiet Space | 11/14/1997 | See Source »

...plane of the planet's orbit is such that a star is being pulled first toward and then away from the Earth, the motion will cause light waves coming from the star to be squeezed together, then stretched apart--making the light look first a little bit bluer than it really is, then a little bit redder, then bluer again, and so on. These subtle color changes--examples of the so-called Doppler shift--can be precisely measured, and the magnitude of the wobble pinned down, with a device called a spectrometer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEARCHING FOR OTHER WORLDS | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...their steins at the prospect of Texas Representative Bill Archer's taking charge of the Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax laws for the petroleum industry. Barry Williamson, a Texas Republican official at the barbeque, exulted that since last Tuesday, "the air smells sweeter and the sky is bluer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ELECTION: Right Makes Might | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...flats between Ambergris Cay and the mainland of Belize are one of the wonders of the fishing world. They extend for miles: a limestone plain covered by a blue-green, seemingly endless mirror of gin-clear salt water, traversed by bluer channels and punctuated by small mangrove islands. This is the home of Megalops atlanticus, the tarpon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blissing Out in Balmy Belize | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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