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...first time in the fifteen years that I have been looking up, the view had irrevocably, permanently changed. My eye struggled to fill in the blank behind the yellow church and the Customs House, mostly because my vision of the towers had already begun to fade. Partly because they were so familiar that I never really knew exactly what they looked like, and partly because you do not bother to make a memory of what you never thought you would have to remember. The towers had loomed protectively over hide-and-go-seek games, my first bike ride, the time...
...piece seems to be a flower with many petals. The blue, a close look at a snowflake and the yellow, a sunburst. None of these images is crisp around the edges—they all seem to fade into the black. The effect of this is that the images acquire movement. This is one of the few techniques Shaw uses that gives his work some intrigue. The snowflake appears to shrink as you look at it. The sun, whose edges are trimmed with orange, looks like it is fluttering. The way Shaw uses color and shading in these works...
...next Harvard possession, Morris just kept catching passes. He snagged Fitzpatrick’s 32-yard fade to get Harvard’s second touchdown and bring the Crimson to within seven...
Fitzpatrick, on the first play from scrimmage, tossed a fade to Morris, who outran his cornerback, made the catch and rumbled in for the score...
...liquid, or possibly as a powder. Either way the spores would be imperceptible, because in order to be used as a weapon, the particles have to be microscopic in size. Over a period of hours, sunlight would kill the bacteria, so the danger of infection starts to fade over time...