Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Misty Majesty. This crisp elegance also appears in Edward Dayes's Greenwich Hospital. Dayes's method was to draw in the outline of his composition first, then concentrate on light and shadow, and finally fill in the color. In time, other artists freed themselves from the necessity of drawing. Compared with Greenwich Hospital or Wheatley's Donnybrook Fair, the watercolors of Louis Thomas Francia, Peter de Wint, and the great Joseph Mallord William Turner seem to have been dipped in the atmosphere. There is no missing the cold dampness of De Wint's Cowes Castle...
...sheer macabre finesse the honors would undoubtedly fall to one Lowell House student. One crisp winter day not many years ago he tied one end of a wire around his neck and the other to a radiator beneath his fourth story window. When he jumped, the wire snapped tight ten feet from the ground. The next morning when one of the kitchen help came in for work she found his head staring back at her from the top of the entry steps...
...foreign to its spirit, or dirty it with less than perfect phrasing and dynamics. Her coloratura in the incomparable "Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly" was remarkable for its clarity and restraint; and in the jolly "Orpheus himself may heave his head" her own humor was crisp and sparkling...
...Republican strongholds. By his own estimate, he shook some 300,000 hands; he turned up at so many political and civic luncheons and dinners that he gained ten pounds. Backed by a Democratic kitty estimated at $800,000, he appeared on scores of radio and television spots, made a crisp, pleasing impression...
...Tigers were strangely cowed through their whole performance last night, but the Harvard Glee Club turned in crisp renditions that put the rival chorus at an even greater disadvantage than they would have suffered singing alone...