Word: greenes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...particular, Arshile Gorky, whose looping organic line is reflected in her sketchy charcoal underdrawing. For all its size, it is an agreeably spontaneous image (and was painted in one day), pale and subtle, with a surprising snap to its trails and vaporous blots of blue, pink and malachite green. The thin pigment is soaked into the weave of the canvas, making it, in effect, a very large watercolor...
...film broadcast to millions of Soviets showed charred railroad cars without windows lying at odd angles amid twisted tracks and broken railroad ties. The area was blackened and barren as though it had been bulldozed, a stark contrast to the plush green of trees dominating the landscape...
B.A.S.S. is the creation of Ray Scott, 56, a former insurance salesman who in 1967 sensed the weekend angler's craving for tips on outwitting the combative black bass, which are actually green. The biggest ones are referred to by aficionados as lunkers. Says Scott, a fishing pal of Bush's: "The bass is so unbelievably fickle that the world's best minds can't tell you where he'll show next. He's a phantom." Aided by that mystique, Scott organized the professional tours and arranged sponsorship deals in which manufacturers help pay expenses. The company's fortunes have...
...they can extract from their clients ("Bwana, give me your boots when we finish our safari"). These young members of the Wachagga tribe, who spend much of the year working on coffee plantations, saunter upward, balancing 30-lb. sacks of climbers' gear on their heads. Some haul large green wooden boxes of provisions, water jugs -- and even live chickens...
...would meet you," said the playwright. The aging politician recalled one of Havel's plays, though none have been performed in Czechoslovakia since 1968. Havel leaped up and gathered a stack of foreign editions that had been smuggled into the country. "I will sign them for you in green ink because green is the color of hope, and I am an optimist." Answered Dubcek: "I was always an optimist. I remain an optimist; I have never lost my spirit...