Word: hues
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were these nationalists, who came from the jungles to take over all IndoChina when the Japanese surrendered? They represented all colors of the anti-white spectrum, but their dominant hue was Red. The Communist leader was a tuberculous agitator who learned his trade in Moscow. His name: Ho Chi Minh...
...their saints after burial and boiled the bones before transferring them to reliquaries, he exposed dubious bones to ultraviolet light. Under this light ordinary bones have a mauve hue, cooked bones show up white...
...years after Fuseli's death: "[He] was undoubtedly the greatest genius of his day . . . But in the modes of conveying his thoughts ... he was a monster . . . His women are all strumpets, and his men all banditti, with the action of galvanized frogs, the dress of mountebanks, and the hue of pestilential putridity . . ." There is something terrifyingly timely in Fuseli's nightmarish mysticism. In some ways, Fuseli bridges the gap between the 18th and the 20th centuries; his shrieks and murmurs carry across the Victorian era (which merely stopped its ears) to the present. In several paintings and drawings...
...joined in. accused the Ambassador of "espionage." called her "an old lady who needs rest to calm her nerves." The Red Socialist Avanti chimed in with its own blast: the U.S. Ambassador is in reality "Senator Joe McCarthy's Rome agent in charge of witch hunting." What the hue & cry is about: the Ambassador is empowered to negotiate arrangements which will keep U.S. offshore procurement contracts out of factories dominated by Communist unions...
...enters wearing a dress with large red flowers at the bosom. Red is the symbol of love and the color which is associated with Mary Magdalene early in her career. Throughout the act, a gold spotlight is trained on Lucasta, which not only gives her hair the same golden hue as Mary Magdalene's was supposed to have, but which also symbolizes the money which the gluttonous Lucasta is demanding. In the second act, the red motif has disappeared from Lucasta's clothes and the gold spotlight is used only intermittently. Confronted by the love of the Christ-figure, Colby...