Word: glittering
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...neglected, Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt warned that "hasty expedients may, while promising immediate advantage, weaken rather than advance our long-range scientific endeavor." Said he: "I sincerely hope that no scientific chauvinism will lead us down ill-considered pathways toward goals which may be more glitter than gold...
...prewar graces are gone. Over the pea-green waters of the 500-year-old, moss-and lichen-encrusted Imperial Moat, big-winged black butterflies flutter languidly. Within the Imperial Palace grounds (visited by 700,000 Japanese yearly) swarms of graceful scarlet dragonflies dip and glitter in the sunshine. In tiny rock gardens behind the bamboo walls of private homes, artificial fountains gurgle, and tiny bells tinkle to the slightest breeze. Traffic cops, sweating in their summer khakis, pause to admire carefully arranged clusters of chrysanthemums set in their dusty control stations, sip glasses of hot green tea to keep cool...
...match was just right: "Eighteen is a wonderful age to marry. I was married young. Age doesn't make any difference. Look at the Duke and Duchess-she's a few years older than he is,* and they're a divine couple." After the wedding, glitter returned to Mother's life; she quit the dress shop, rented a penthouse in Paris. Meanwhile, at home in Palm Beach, Bob Sweeny began spending more time on golf, less around the house. Despite the birth of two daughters and the gay social life, Society Matron Joanne soon felt...
...white background with two black lines. He was moving toward more complicated designs when, with World War II inevitable, he went first to London, then in 1940 to New York, where he finished his study in balanced imbalance, Place de la Concorde (see color page). Entranced by the glitter of Manhattan, he then set to work on his last two major paintings, Broadway Boogie-Woogie and the unfinished Victory Boogie-Woogie, which sparkled with segmented, syncopated color. They made a bright closing movement to Piet Mondrian's multi-variations within the rectangle, a constant, single theme, which Biographer Seuphor...
...high drama a breathless hush pervades the air of Poussin's painting. The artist's delight was in the spacious landscape, towering Alban hills, the pleasant villa under blue skies and the rich glitter of jewels and armor. The painting keys perfectly to Poussin's own view of himself: "My natural disposition forces me to seek and cherish orderly things, avoiding confusion which is as contrary to my nature as is light to obscure gloom...