Word: colorlessness
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...Judicial battles - much like his continued control of a billion-dollar media empire, his loose tongue in diplomatic circles and even his recent hair replacement surgery - have helped set Berlusconi apart from most comparatively colorless Western leader. His supporters say the debonair, center-right politician has revolutionized the perennially gray world of Italian politics, carving out an influential role for his country on the world stage thanks to his rapport with the likes of Bush and British prime minister Tony Blair. His opponents, by sharp contrast, say Berlusconi puts democracy at risk with his myriad conflicts of interest and perennial...
...carbon monoxide is a concern for all of us. The odorless, colorless gas can be found at low levels in most homes that have fuel-burning furnaces or water heaters, gas dryers or attached garages. It's a product of the incomplete combustion of carbon-based fuels and is present in the exhaust of all internal-combustion engines. According to the Centers for Disease Control, carbon monoxide poisoning contributes each year to an average of 1,091 unintentional deaths and 2,385 suicides in the U.S., where it's the most common type of accidental poisoning, leading to roughly...
...libretto: almost all of the film’s dialogue—even that which is not sung—rhymes. This gives the movie an unfortunate Seussian feel, and drains the tension from the film’s darker scenes.Stephen Goldblatt’s murky and colorless photography won’t be winning any awards either. Because one of the central characters (Mark, played by Anthony Rapp) is a freelance filmmaker, I half expected a plot twist that would reveal the movie to be “his” documentary of his and his friends?...
Like an indecisive interior decorator, Germany has been mulling gaudy color schemes for its new coalition. Yet even if this week sees a final choice - pairing Christian Democrat black with Social Democratic red - the government will appear oddly colorless. Missing from any Cabinet will be the country's brightest politician, Joschka Fischer, 57, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor since 1998. The street-fighting iconoclast who settled happily into a role at the peak of the German establishment, and whose international fame and personal popularity always seemed out of kilter with the modest size of his Green party, has retired from...
...realist or romantic terms. The painting’s stark absence of color is equally impressive. Painted solely in shades of black and white, the images employ symbolic and graphic punch while vibrating with intense expression. To a contemporary audience acquainted with black-and-white newspapers and film, the colorless palette additionally connotes objectivity to an otherwise emotional piece. As I stood impacted both by the scene’s complexity and passion, I did not question “Guernica” as the paradigm of modern...