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...decision to restore the painting was . . . greatly influenced when, during the war years, the great painting had to be unrolled in the daylight and, startlingly, in the merciless sunlight, the muddy-looking, pseudo-mystic brown-black crepe suddenly appeared to be shadow...
Three hundred years did the rest. Daylight turned to yellow torchlight or faded out altogether. Some of Captain Cocq's men vanished into the night. Visitors to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum praised the painting to the skies for its golden glow, its mysterious, impenetrable shadows. Reportedly it was Sir Joshua Reynolds who dubbed it "Night Watch," and the name stuck...
...usual miscellany of mid-week practice pass defense, defense against Crusader plays, pass offense, a signal drill, plus a scrimmage which pitted the "A" eleven against a Jayvee squad--was on the daily menu, and the shortening hours of daylight will make that schedule a more difficult program to squeeze in with every passing...
...With being "sent down" as the possible penalty, the hero's prank is performed in broad daylight before an admiring student crowd. In reality, when playful Oxonians have felt an urge to embellish the Martyrs' Memorial, the chamber pot has been applied in darkness, in stealth and with cement...
...plebeian Hipódromo in the morning, and, pausing only for a sandwich, migrate across town to bet away the afternoon at the slightly tonier Hipico. Earlier in the present Chilean winter, when lack of rainfall slowed hydroelectric plants and forced the capital to go on daylight saving time, fans sat stoically through the 8 a.m. race in utter darkness (newspapers suggested that the ponies carry lanterns...