Word: glaucous
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...down every detail of it with an exact balance between detachment and anxiety. Nothing that can be seen is skimped--not even the freezer burns on the meat (which, Lopez explains, thawed and had to be refrozen dozens of times over the months of painting it) or the frosty, glaucous eye, staring at nothing. It is still life in the non-English sense, nature morte, "dead nature." In the hands of a melodramatic or cheaply "humanistic" artist, this rabbit would have been a pretext for the pathetic fallacy. But in Lopez's hands its death...
...subject matter. A purely abstract design I thought would not suffice her survive to be lived with for a length of time. It should have a meaning to help to retain the interest of the faculty, which is to dine in this room. So the theme became a sprouting, glaucous verdure, an image of the idea of growing. Green, as a soothing, quieting, and appetizing color. To contain enough variations towards more exciting yellow shades as well as towards cooler bluish tints. But green, as rich and juicy as possible without becoming aggressive...
...other name) Connelly, the traveling nuisance who crashes gates and whose solitary optic is glaucous, lurked by the ringside. Amid such distinguished company he had wished to appear at his best, and, for perhaps the first time in his life, wore a dinner jacket, white gloves, carried a cane. Also, over his non-existent eye, he wore a monocle. The unfortunate thing was that, having scaled the heights of sartorial formality, "One Eye" found that almost all the other gentlemen present were wearing white flannels, dark blue coats...
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