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PRINCETON, N.J.--Color the day orange for the Harvard soccer team. Saturday's game against Princeton started out on an orange tone at picturesque tree-lined Poe Field; and it ended in a blur of Princeton's orange-colored balls finding their way into the Crimson net. The final tally: Orange 3, Crimson...
...Mark Rothko's paintings, with their feathery bars and rectangles of hovering light. The vital text, however, was unwittingly furnished by a popular American preacher in the 1920s, when asked to describe his vision of God. "I see him," said the evangelist, "as a sort of oblong blur...
...Dinteville and Georges de Selve, The Ambassadors. When squinted at edge-on, from the right-hand side of the frame, the smear turns into a skull. The illusion is startling: the rest of the painting disappears and the death's-head floats eerily in a greenish-brown blur. What Holbein meant by it is still a matter of debate among historians. Is it a comment on the vanitas of earthly possessions and power, the transience of those grave young faces and minutely delineated objects? A comment on the relativity of painting to the real world? A heraldic device...
...home of Louisiana State University, is a saucer-shaped bowl that amplifies every sound and helps screaming boosters live up to their reputation as football's noisiest fans. At Ole Miss, when the band plays Dixie, massed Confederate flags in the student section wave frenziedly on cue, a blur of fluttering bunting...
...confusing collage of accusations, counter-accusations, and "now top this" solutions to the crime. But Simon's delineation of plot and motive (two rather important elements of a good murder mystery) is simply to weak and insubstantial to hold it all together. What results is an incomprehensible blur...