Word: greened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vase of flowers in The Black Table, 1919, one sees his hand evoking the most difficult conjunctions of sight and imagination -- in the way the transparent Turkish blouse is rendered by a few luscious strokes of white over the flesh, for instance, or in the sliding knot of green and black shapes that defines the leg of the armchair. When Matisse saw the glitter of light on a band of water, he wanted to get it right, along with the curlicues of wrought iron between his eye and the Baie des Anges, and the peculiar Moorish dome of a pier...
...governing impulses was the artist's desire to measure himself not only against the visual stimuli of the Cote d'Azur but against the heritage of the 19th century, whose former citizen he was. Its masters speak both to and from his Nicois canvases. The hushed green density of Large Landscape, Mont Alban, 1918, is an amalgam of Courbet and Corot, though the slow, wristy drawing that drives the eye round the curve of the road and follows the slant of the windblown pines is entirely Matisse's own. The modulation of silvery grays (jug of water, belly of sole...
...were announcing their superhyped superfight, set for April in Las Vegas. "This is not a career for me," jabbed Leonard. "This is one fight." Shot back Hagler: "There is no one else out there for me." Both blared that they were not doing it for the money. Still, the green spoke pretty loudly too. The guaranteed $23 million purse (twelve for Hagler, eleven for Leonard) is the largest in boxing history. And away from the media glare, the Great Adversaries sounded more like cozy capitalists than fuming pugilists. "Marvin asked me about my restaurant," reports Leonard. "I asked him about...
...Pickens in an attempt to take over Gulf Oil. The bid failed, but seven months later the Belzbergs sold their $87 million stake in the company for $157 million. Last March the family threatened a takeover of Ashland Oil (1985 sales and revenues: $8.2 billion), collecting a $16 million "green-mail" profit when management bought back its shares...
Sparg, who is white, then identified herself as a guerrilla of the African National Congress, the outlawed antiapartheid political organization. Last week, dressed defiantly in the A.N.C.'s colors of black, green and yellow, she pleaded guilty to charges of treason, arson and attempted arson and was sentenced to 25 years in prison...