Word: ghosts
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...Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just directing traffic." MEL GIBSON, actor, on directing The Passion, a movie about the last 12 hours of Jesus' life...
...symbolic value; determined to honor his leather-apron roots, he built the courtyard on a spot that lay squarely between posh and working-class neighborhoods. After he died, Franklin's grandchildren razed the place, thinking the property was worth more than the home. In 1976 architect Robert Venturi's ghost structure--a beam outline (to scale) of the home--was erected...
...tour operators sell cruises on 100-meter ice vessels, each carrying about 100 passengers. Other trips leave from Christchurch, New Zealand; Hobart, Tasmania; and South Africa's Cape Town. All offer a beguiling array of experiences from close-up views of mothballed whaling stations to courtesy calls at scientific ghost towns inhabited by haggard meteorologists and bearded seal watchers. Even more spectacular are vistas of primordial glaciers?vertiginous, 2,000-meter mountains and icy bays teeming with whales and penguins. It doesn't get more pristine or elemental than this...
...ripples of Current (1964) create an illusion of color. Later, elements that ought to be 3-D (twisted threads, lattices) look flat; those that ought to be flat (stripes, waves) bulge or recede. After bursting into color in 1967, Riley used the way the eye sees the ghost of a shade's opposite (green-red, turquoise-orange) to make hallucinatory hues. In Veld (1971), diagonal stripes in vivid green contain narrow stripes of white, bordered by infinitesimal lines of red - but you could swear the white was yellow. From jazzy stripes she moved on to paler, pastel ripples. Undulations...
...experiences in the fall of 2001 included working on one of the world’s only farms that milks donkeys and living in a castle in Tuscany purported to be haunted by a ghost...