Word: brickdust
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...breezeless morning in the greenhill isles of Ithaca, Zante and Cephalonia, off the western shores of Greece. Villagers and vacationers from the mainland slept or stirred, or busied themselves quietly about their homes. It was 5:30 a.m. Forty seconds later, the isles lay beneath a yellow shroud of brickdust in the wake of a major earthquake...
...even said that soldiers of the Red Army stand as guards of honor before his paintings in the Soviet museums." Yet many a purchaser has been puzzled at heart by the scrawl of a cadaverous bull, the entirely blue circus-rider, the patchwork of pasted cloth, cement, brickdust he has bought. And many a student has sought passionately to copy the processes-"researches," "experiments"- by which Painter Picasso attains undeniable effects. Hence many an "ism," including most of Cubism...
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