Word: illusionality
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It seems that as Matisse's experience of Islamic art deepened, he tried to find equivalents for it, not only in his shapes but also in the substance of his paint. He worked increasingly in vaporous, quick washes thinned to watercolor transparency -- stains of extraordinary beauty that establish a constant...
To anyone who still thinks of the banjo as suitable only for rippling accompaniment to high-pitched country harmonies, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones is pure revelation. As a technician, Fleck is hummingbird-fast, whether picking with three fingers, Scruggs-style, or with the back-and-forth, thumb- and-forefinger...
Calling the elections "an illusion of democracy," HRAAA candidate David J. Scondras '68, a Boston city councillor, said the new guidelines only compounded an "institutional inertia" which already made outsiders election to the Board difficult.
"How do you dispel [the illusion]? Simply go out into the environment and see that it's not universal to have opportunity, to have the resources you do, the great school system or a supportive environment, For them to do what you do they have to go against the grain...
"`Why were the women working some jobs, and the men working others?'" she asked herself. What was wrong with the "illusion that people were trying to create there?" Ting remembers asking herself and her family.