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Touch of Sadness. But both crowd and committee were slightly nonplussed when Petrillo sat down in the bright glare of the lights. He was dressed as quietly as a banker and he smiled a happy smile, like a man back at last among his dearest friends...
...Hopper, "nature" is largely man-made (the glare of electricity and the harsh jumble of U.S. cities and towns fascinates him) and it consists more of what he remembers than of what he sees. His big, cleanly painted canvases look like windows on simplified reality...
...taken the Buddhist cure for his troubles (i.e., counting beads and keeping the Buddhist Sabbath), paled as he entered the death cell in Insein jail. Outside, in a glare of fireworks, the independence festivities had begun...
Blood in the Landscape. By the chilling glare of the atom, the dawn of the Renaissance seems a time of earthly happiness. It was indeed an age of Faith and Hope, but not often of Charity. Revenge was a point of honor, and perennial feuds cursed the children of families and states alike. The blood of the unjustly slain, which flows like an ever-widening river through the embattled landscape of European history, was already running deep...
...others: Alison's House, Brittle Heaven) to treat of New England's renowned recluse, Poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-86). By now it should be clear that Emily, whose life was as inward as it was intense, is not the likeliest sort of figure for the public glare of the stage...