Word: hue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pope also created a way of assessing the role of color in the visual organization of a painting. His theories are extremely complicated-they take up 127 pages of explanation in the catalogue under paragraphs headed "Limited Range of Hue and Intensity" or "The Relative Nature of Color Perception." Basically, Pope developed a structure of color inter-relationships-his "color solid," a cylinder that plots out the place of the three components of color-hue, intensity and value-in three dimensions...
...through a devaluation," writes Columnist Joel Marcus in the daily Ha'aretz, "a devaluation in leadership ability, devaluation in spirit, in values, in morale, in faith and self-confidence." Traditionally respected as the savior of the nation, even the army has come under attack for incompetence. Following a hue and cry about the lack of cold-weather gear for soldiers on the frosty Golan Heights, civilian volunteers and even tourists went up to the front to distribute American parkas, long underwear and woolen socks. The government is understandably apprehensive about the upcoming report of a blue-ribbon commission investigating...
...colleté bridal gown cost $7,500), and they set out to live lavishly ever after. In Denver, Hod built the lady a splendiferous mansion surrounded by a hundred peacocks, nude statuary (it later had to be clothed in deference to some Denver bluenoses), and carriages of every hue to suit her costume. He bestowed on her jewels that supposedly once belonged to Queen Isabella of Spain; in fact, they had been gathered by agents from New York hock shops. He built what was possibly the country's grandest opera house and imported for Denver's delectation almost...
...nothing unusual about the case. A person need not be present in a country to commit a crime against it. Ricord's Manhattan attorney, Herbert I. Handman, sees things differently. "If Ricord were involved in anything but a narcotics case," he says, "there would be a universal hue and cry." But the U.S. Supreme Court turned down his appeal...
...analysis--which drew upon the work of Paul Mus, an eminent French scholar of Vietnam--explained that in traditional Vietnam the peasant believed that his father, ancestors and emperor exercised great mystical powers over events. After the French consolidated their control over the country, they replaced the emperor at Hue as the omnipotent father; this mystical sense of respectful awe enabled the French to transform Vietnamese society without serious opposition. When Ho Chi Minh and a small Viet Minh contingent marched into Hanoi unopposed on August 19, 1945, French omnipotence was undermined; the mandate of heaven now descended upon...