Word: colorations
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...antiquary and scholar named Cassiano dal Pozzo. This gave him excellent access to collections, and the time to develop the repertoire of figures that would fill his work in years to come. Rome was not just a boneyard of suggestive antiques; it was full of living art whose plasticity, color and narrative richness surpassed anything he could see in France -- Caravaggio, Pietro da Cortona, the Carracci. But Pozzo's main gift to Poussin was the intellectual background that enabled a melancholy, impetuous young Frenchman to become the chief peintre-philosophe...
...cards -- it's just like the real thing. Except nobody hears it but you. A TV camera records your every utterance for videotape, and when your inning is up you get a cassette of your performance as well as two tickets to another game. Bring a buddy to do color commentary! Amaze your friends! Appall your mother! No holds are barred, no sentiments bleeped, no expletives deleted. The ump blows a close play at the plate? Give 'im hell...
...answer, "We don't have any more minority spots," prompted Maria de la Luz Reyes and John Halcon to examine discrimination against Chicanos in the form of tokenism, taboos against "brown on brown" research--"men and women of color" writing on race issues--and inadequate preparation of teachers to deal with Chicano students...
Residents began calling for the reforms after the house committee decided recently to purchase a $400 color television for a 10-man suite located above the Currier dining hall and separate from all other Currier entryways...
...this with Degas's own working methods, the sense of filiation and descent that would breathe through his work for the rest of his life, the past feeding into the present and then out into the future. Degas, the synthesizer of Ingres and Delacroix, would point -- through the wild color fields and direct manual touch of his later years -- to a modernism that was not yet born...