Word: greenish
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...born in May, 1866, Leopold Bloom-citizen, husband, father, wanderer, reincarnation of Ulysses." The Irish capital has changed in other small ways. A bronze bust of James Joyce stands in St. Stephen's Green, a small park near the city's center. The Chapelizod Bridge across the greenish River Liffey has been rechristened the Anna Livia Bridge, named after Anna Livia Plurabelle, the female force that flows through Finnegans Wake. Little by little, the city that Joyce so painstakingly preserved in his fiction is reshaping itself into his images...
...midst of Baltimore's recently rejuvenated Inner Harbor--that city's version of Faneuil Hall--sits an outpost of youthful chicken slingers clad in the orange and black colors of Alex's little kingdom. Moored in the harbor's greenish-brown water in the moth-balled U.S.S. Constellation, cousin of Boson's Constitution, and a favorites among the hordes of tourists who swarm through the twin glass-enclosed pavilions every day in the slimmer. They gawk at the awkward old boat and munch on Alex's chicken...
...West Texas would love to see mesquite miraculously transformed into a luxuriant carpet of range grass as deep as a pickup's fenders. On the other hand, they show for it sometimes a curious tenderness. "Mesquite is very lovely in the spring," Monte Noelke admits; its light greenish blossoms are the West Texan's confirmation that winter is really over...
...here we are in this empty, greenish clinic with the camera gliding up and down empty corridors and suddenly it picks up this nurse and fastens on her behind as she sashays down the hall, her dress taking little hops up the back of her thighs: and we sit back and smile, because it's only a matter of time...
...gauge just how evocative each picture is and how strong the response to it. Of the prints, the blue swimmer stirred the most emphatic responses and the largest number of positive reactions: "lightness and freedom," "a loving, warm companion." But one woman felt frighteningly "submerged." Viewers found the greenish abstraction disturbing or threatening, calling it "demonic" or "evil." One even described it as "death reflected in a pool...