Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brooding St. Anne as by the unearthly light shed by a candle that is partially shielded by the girl's translucent hand. In the Cleveland Museum's Repentant St. Peter, the spell is cast by a lantern that bathes St. Peter's ordeal in a glow of searing red that seems on the verge of bursting into flames. This summer Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the purchase of The Fortune Teller-a canvas so finely preserved that it looks as if the master's brush had only just left...
...novel's central character is Ike-o Hartwell, who was born in a toilet in a Pittsburgh slum called Sobaski's Stair way. He grew up amid the neon glow of pawn shops and poolrooms on Mechanic Avenue, where the purple nights resounded to the clank and clatter of the street cars, the prancing polkas from Souick's Social Hall, the plaintive hymns filtering from store-front churches. His huge, im mobile mother and most of his neighbors were Poles, and there were street fights with encroaching waves of Jews, Italians, Syrians and Negroes. Young...
...many others. He has too often costumed, not clothed, and--except for the fantastical Rumour--this just fails. Some of his soldiers wear heraldic outfits, which for some reason makes them look like figures out of Tenniel's illustrations for Alice. Glendower looks as if he might glow in the dark. Messengers arrive from arduous journeys looking neat and clean. In contrast to the uneveness of Armstrong's work is David Amram's uniformly fine music, highlighted by a charming Welsh song...
Many an airline passenger has tensed uneasily as lightning streaked the sky and the eerie blue glow of static electricity outlined the wing tips and propellers. Yet airmen have considered static electricity aloft relatively harmless. Now and then, lightning may blow out radio equipment or burn small holes in aircraft skin sections, but there are no recorded cases of major damage. Discharge of static electricity, named St. Elmo's fire by mariners of the Middle Ages, who thought the phenomenon a good omen from their patron saint, is considered no danger at all. When a plane flies through stormy...
...clubed into sensibility, spent the night in a cell ankle-deep in filth. On canvas, Evergood's figures were apt to be as chunky as himself, his colors applied in solid intricately designed blocks. But the mood could be as soft as a glow. In Portrait of my Mother, he painted a woman who, doggedly masking her pain, calmly awaits certain death from cancer. And in Forebears Were Pioneers (see color), he paid tribute to a stiff-backed old lady he happened to see seated with a kind of majesty in the midst of the ruins left...