Word: flickers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blue Triangle. There was a religious, or at least numinous basis to nearly all of Kupka's imagery; even a strict geometrical abstraction like Untitled, 1931, retains in its big blue triangle a flicker of pointillist light that had been appearing in his work since he began studying the stained glass of Chartres...
...other hand," writes Editor Wolf, a professor of English who once taught a course on Dracula at San Francisco State University, "from its pages there rise images so dreamlike and yet so imperative that we experience them as ancient allegories. Everywhere one looks, there flicker the shadows of primordial struggles; the perpetual tension between the dark and the light; the wrestling match between Christ and Satan; and finally, the complex allegories of sex: sex in all its unimaginable innocence, or sex reeking with the full perfume of the swamp. And all these urgencies are seen or sensed through...
Some hope still exists that Congress and the White House can get together on energy policy, but it is barely a flicker. Democrats contend that Ford's strategy of raising prices is the wrong way to force oil conservation, but they cannot agree on any approach of their own. A bill that the White House described as a "marshmallow" finally squeaked through the House Ways and Means Committee before the recess. It would, among other things, raise the federal tax on gasoline from its present 4? to 7? next January, tax business use of petroleum, and levy...
...supervisor strolled casually over to one of the secretaries. "Do me a favor, will you? Stop by the bank on your lunch hour to pay my phone bill-and still get back on time." Coolly, with only a flicker of hesitation, the secretary answered: "Look, I love working with you, but I feel very strongly that people in secretarial positions should not be asked to do personal favors for their bosses...
...gymnasium. There is a lyrical side to Ri ley's work. The color, in particular, is taxingly subtle. It does not woo the eye, but it does present an unexpectedly wide range of situations, from a slow, impalpable, pearly shimmer of greens and grays to the sharp, exhilarating flicker and reversal of green against red against blue in such paintings as Paean...