Word: emeralds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artists and writers thrive tax free on the Emerald Isle...
...beam system that throws streamers of color over the dancers and peppers the floor with shards of light. At one moment, the crowd may be enveloped by a mixture of fog and Faberge; at another, clouds of red smoke billow from the floor, subsiding in a gentle shower of emerald as a green laser beam bounces off mirrored balls festooning the ceiling...
...Balcony, 1958, or View from the Porch, 1959, one comes to see the coastal suburbs of California in terms of them. Parallels of white curb and bright green lawn, the rising streets and bright evanescent houses, the thickly painted figures with features eroded by light, the sharp eupeptic color-emerald, persimmon, rust, ultramarine: the work was a discovery, a naming. For a time most young painters in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Diebenkorn studied and taught art in the late '40s and '50s, tried to do it, or something like...
...room are autographed photos of a younger Ted Hesburgh standing comfortably beside Popes and Presidents. His hair is less black now and his heavy jaw fuller, but he still has the handsome black-Irish looks of his mother. There is an inscribed silver plate from Jackie Kennedy and an emerald-studded ring from Pope Paul. He has become a virtual prince among priests. The sound of a Beethoven recording, a gift from the president of RCA, plays softly in the background...
South Boston sparkled a vibrant green as fresh as the Emerald Isle itself yesterday as Boston's close-knit Irish community gathered together along a three-mile parade route to laugh and dance, drink and kiss, mock politicians, cheer local heroes and occasionally watch the marchers...