Word: greenishness
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...paper coated with large, stationary molecules of an acid material. These clutch the dyes as they arrive and form them into a tough, many-colored surface that reproduces the colored image focused by the camera's lens. The picture needs no further treatment. Its blues are sometimes slightly greenish at first, but after a few moments the excess green tint disappears permanently...
Four miles down the red clay road, Morfett discovered a second bivouac, "swarming with thousands of Russians. Some were dressed in physical-training gear and were doing calisthenics. Others wore greenish fatigues. Two teams were playing volley ball." Between neat rows of dun-colored tents, Morfett caught glimpses of field kitchens and chow lines, and beyond sat "military vehicles-lorries, trucks with mobile radar units, armored cars. Some of the trucks still bore Russian-language lettering." Ringing the camp were Cuban soldiers manning freshly dug anti-aircraft emplacements...
...Mantegna's last works. In the Agony, he had experimented with the figure of St. James by showing it to the viewer almost feet first, and thus fore shortened. The Christ carries the experiment to the ultimate, and the effect is something of a shock. The greenish corpse fills almost the entire canvas, the marks of suffering still plain to see. The ungainly intimacy of the portrayal has an impact of its own: few portrayals of the Pieta evoke such a powerful sense of grief and of pity for the tortured Christ-or of outrage for his murderers...
...Edvard Munch to Canada's Pollock-like abstract expressionist, Jean-Paul Riopelle. Bonnard. Villon, Matisse, Picasso, Leger, Poliakoff and Rouault are all represented. One of Paul Klee's best-known works. Seven O'Clock over the Roofs, looks like a toy town built with brown and greenish blocks. Oslo had never seen a finer group of Juan Crises, nor had it been exposed to Surrealist Max Ernst...
Last night's display was "extraordinarily bright," and occurs very seldom in this latitude, according to Fred L. Whipple, professor of Astronomy. He said the greenish cast of the aurora was ionized oxygen, and is normal...