Word: bluish
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...thin slice of French Milquetoast in appearance, Bonnard fell into the celebrated company of Vuillard, Vallotton and Maillol. Gauguin was chief prophet, telling them to express what they saw in colors straight from the tube. If a shadow had a bluish look, said he, the painter should use pure ultramarine. A group called the Nabis, or prophets, gathered and asserted that the imitation of three dimensions was less vital than a blatant arrangement of lines and colors. That was art; the other was slavish copying. Bonnard became "the very Japanese Nabi" for his fascination with oriental asymmetry, ascending perspective...
...hair was translucent and slippery as spun glass, his skin white and soft as the flesh beneath a woman's breast, bluish in certain folds and hollows; his eyes gleamed liquidly as pale green jellyfish in shifting rays of sunlight. He lay curied and dreaming like a foetus swimming in formaidehyde...
Down came the blinds, darkening the classroom as 25 students raptly watched the bluish TV screen before them. The show was their French teacher, a precise little woman saying "Nous lirons la leçon encore," and for half an hour the youngsters eagerly tried to reproduce her impeccable accent. So last week a topflight white teacher drilled Negro students in a small high school in rural South Carolina...
...hues and shapes. Finally, the entire surface is swimming in color. I retreat a few steps to look at my work. For the devil's sake! I can't see any ocean. The luminescent opening in the center has become an enormous perspective of pink and bluish lights. And here-a white and pink spot. I can't explain how it got there and what it may mean...
...clock, wearing a wool suit, a bluish tweed overcoat and a beanie hat, Mrs. Rockefeller walked through a rear entrance into the courthouse with her sons Rodman, 29, and Steven, 25. Mrs. Rockefeller showed some strain as she walked past the popping flashbulbs. Her sons left her for an anteroom, and she walked into the courtroom. It is a large chamber with azure walls and gilded frieze. Except for Judge Bowen, the two lawyers, and three court attendants, she was alone...