Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the coalition has broken quickly from the starting gate, organizational problems may soon begin to weigh it down. As one representative joked at last week's meeting: "Congratulation! We've given birth to another headache...
Wilson and his roommates--Franklin Codel '86 Thomas J. Gill '86 John B Kessler '86 and Wayne Snodgrass '86--planned to remain in their rooms last night despite the slight damage and broken window...
...Constable's mature work that seems so puzzlingly modern, a prediction of impressionism: the thick paint. By his late years he was piling it on with a palette knife in higher and higher tones, all the way up to pure flake white, in an effort to render the broken luminosity he saw in nature. There are moments when one feels the subject needs disinterring from the mass of pigment, but the expressive gains were sometimes enormous...
...castle (which overlooks the Thames estuary) a pressure of melancholy: he was painting this desolate shore from memory, and his beloved wife Maria had just died of consumption. The paint is crusted, layer over layer, like mortar; even the grass and mallows in the foreground seem fossilized, and the broken tower-taller in art than in life-has an Ossianic misery to it. Then one's eye escapes to the horizon, glittering with scumbled white light, like a promise of resurrection. The whole image is as intense as anything in Turner: "melancholy grandeur," as Constable put it, the very...
After the students had returned to their rooms, Buildings and Grounds staff worked until 7 a.m. under the supervision of Master Pfister to repair the broken alarm system...