Word: brilliant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chiefly of tempre paintings and block prints, the majority of which were lent by Yamanaka & Co. Other prints, some Italian pottery, and other art objects were loaned to the museum by Denman Ross '75. Some of the prints in the exhibition are uncolored, while others are decorated in many brilliant shades. One of the finest in the collection is "Buddha Accompanied by Two Buddhists" all in golden dress, done about 1750. An example of the earliest tempre painting is the "Nirvana of Buddha" from the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries. These remarkable Japanese works of art were made by monks...
...Fogg Art Museum, hanging in a position of considerable importance is a picture of a "Madonna and Child" from the school of Giovanni Bellini. The Madonna wears a red gown, brilliant blue mantle, and luminous silvery white hood. The drapery of the background is bright yellow green. The sky on the left is pale blue, and the rocks neutral brown. The parapet is a dark red brown; the book is red. On the parapet is the signature: Ioannes Bellinvs...
...baby when the picture ends but despite this bond, usually infrangible in the cinema, Crome has returned to his first wife, is preparing to remarry her. Cinemactress Dove wears becoming clothes and acts so much better than her leading man that her performance, first in a year, seems more brilliant than it is. One excellent sequence at the beginning-a suburban dinner party at which the host (Adrian Morris) bullies his wife by patronizing her-is true enough (to put the rest of the picture out of focus...
...British Museum was read all the books on etiquet. For nine years he wrote unwanted novels and was a complete failure, then his music criticism caught on. When Harris was editor of the Saturday Review he made Shaw his dramatic critic. Shaw's weekly column became a brilliant event...
...Indians here to play Harvard in 1911. "The Indians liked to play Harvard," he said, "and had learned to have a high regard for the teams. At this same time they played every year a little college named Susquehanna which they considered their fodder. Whenever anyone made a particularly brilliant play they called it 'a Harvard play;' when he made a bonehead play it was termed a 'Susquehanna...