Word: flickering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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BATON ROUGE, La.—Caroline E. Sloan ’07, horrified and numb, sat in a Little Rock, Ark. Doubletree Hotel room, scanning for her home in the flicker of the television screen...
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...becomes a flicker in the side of your eye––it lives there comfortably and then one day you notice it. It’s only when you live with it and see it everyday that it becomes extraordinary. That’s what public art is supposed...
...you’re hungry now, and you get that way often, then the mural of a mermaid on the wall at Pinocchio’s has probably assumed the position of that flicker that Schimert talks about. You go in for some tomato basil, and while you devour it, a blond mermaid sits behind you in her sea-world, also munching on a slice...
...drew back from the most dramatic devices of his earlier, more theatrical work. As his personal crisis worsened - in Malta in 1608 he was arrested again for another brawl and had to escape from prison - his palette and his configurations of space became more subdued. His figures begin to flicker and dematerialize. Pagan motifs disappear; religious scenes multiply. Bloodshed and death turn up everywhere. You can grasp his evolution in the distance that separates the 1601 version of The Supper at Emmaus, which belongs to the National Gallery, and a version completed five years later, soon after he fled Rome...