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Word: discolored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a painting is not in imminent danger of blistering or cracking or a major sculptural flaw does not develop or a drawing does not need treatment to halt sliding in the mat, then aesthetic considerations assume primary concern, Beale said. Yellow varnish may discolor a painting and invite a cleaning...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Obscured By The Fogg | 3/10/1977 | See Source »

...would be safe to say that a strong anal-complex is evident here. Agains and again Joyce talks of his wife's underwear, urging her at one point to buy some "whorish drawers...and also discolor them just a little behind." His obvious pleasure with his wife's propensity for gushing flatus in the act of union is not altogether new to Joyce's readers. Bloom saw the "mellow yellow smellow mellons" of Molly's rump as a kind of ultimate healer of all his tensions, of his conflicting sense of envy, jealousy, abnegation, and equanimity, because they were "insusceptible...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Swine Before Pearls | 11/14/1975 | See Source »

...guard it, stroke it, hide it from the public." A special makeup man in scuba gear would plunge into the ocean to add more blood to Bruce's teeth and gums or administer a touch-up to his tender plastic tissue. Bruce's skin tended to discolor and deteriorate in the salt water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUMMER OF THE SHARK | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

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