Word: colorlessness
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...mixed colorless Italian and Spanish songs with minor arias by Cilea, Caccini, Massenet, Lalo, Puccini, and Bellini, and since the Puccini was "E Lucevan le Stelle," which is barely music, Bellini was left as the tallest of the pygmies. An usher told me that Tagliavini has been singing these bleak, unimaginative programs for years...
What a refreshing change! Cassius, a young Negro, but not an angry young man; a fighter, but a colorful addition to the otherwise colorless and, of late, bloody fight game...
...common childhood dream is one in which the dreamer overpowers his parents and becomes their acknowledged superior. The Glass children have satisfied this desire from birth; their father is a colorless nothing, their mother a somewhat comic sycophant to their talents. In short, the Glasses have never really grown up at all, but remain big children, hating those who will not play their games, attracting those who will...
...five feet wide, five feet high, as high as a man, as wide as a man's outstretched arms (not large, not small, sizeless), trisected (no composition), one horizontal form negating one vertical form (formless, no top, no bottom, directionless), three (more or less) dark (lightless), non-contrasting (colorless) colors, brushwork brushed out to remove brushwork, a mat, flat, freehand painted surface (glossless, texture-less, nonlinear, no hard edge, no soft edge) which does not reflect its surroundings-a pure, abstract nonobjective, timeless, spaceless, changeless, relation-less, disinterested painting-an object that is self-conscious (no unconsciousness), ideal, transcendent...
During the four-month course, the students will learn how to use dozens of complex espionage devices. They will be taught how to tap a telephone from a distance by beaming a ray from an infrared listening device into the receiver, and how to coat documents with a colorless dye that will penetrate even through leather gloves to blacken the fingers of anyone touching the document. "Naturally," purrs Old Shanghai Hand Furuya, "we have a counter-formula which will nullify the dye's effect, and only our students will know about...