Word: doorway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made persistent efforts to lure home her estranged husband. Once, having heard that he was to speak at a book exhibition, Vivienne launched off for the lecture room, armed with their dog Polly and his three most recent books. She arrived just ahead of him and in the crowded doorway turned and faced him, saying "Oh, Tom." He took her hand, said "How do you do?" and walked quickly past her. After the lecture, she hurried to the speakers' table while the audience was still applauding; Polly rushed towards Eliot and leapt up at him in delight. When he ignored...
...ever appeared in this outpost were missionaries. I still wanted to find out about the villagers and about their farms and fiestas, their schools and homes. Suddenly, as I walked along, I saw a white cloth at the end of a wooden pole that protruded from the open doorway of a house. I had an idea. Throughout the entire Cochabamba valley the white flag marks the spot where chicha is sold...
Scandal Details. "I felt the atmosphere become tense," he said. "I thought I had better get out of here quick." Dashing downstairs, Escaro heard a voice come over a walkie-talkie held by a uniformed cop in front of the doorway. "Hello, hello, No. 2. Follow the guy who has come out. We've got to get out of here. Every man for himself." Escaro returned later with several Canard colleagues. The raiders had disappeared, but left evidence of their night's effort, which was duly photographed and published...
...woman with the sad eyes and soft complexion sits in the entranceway to the kitchen, framed by the doorway. But the tranquility of this picture of Frank's mother shatters when a raucous voice on the radio blares out, "Gonna' have some fun tonight, gonna' have some fun tonight..." Three meticulously-dressed students walk into the House a bit sluggishly. Two of them slink over to the one empty table, next to the Coke machine, and sit down with a weary thud. The other, wearing purpletinted glasses and a long crimson scarf, goes up to the counter and, yawning, tells...
...Patterns, arcs, straight lines, enclosures and tangencies now became the syntax of Kelly's formal language, in painting as in sculpture. He did not, in short, start from geometry. Thus Relief with Blue, 1950, whose flaring curves channel the eye into a pale blue slot like a narrow doorway, was suggested by the drapery of a set for Jean-Louis Barrault's production of Hamlet, which Kelly saw in Paris. Other paintings evolved from sketches Kelly made of arches reflected in the Seine, of water ripples, or of shadows on the metal staircase of a friend...