Word: impressionist
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...selected segments of the tapestry showing such details as the original stitching and repairs that have been made over the years. The museum will soon use the camera in connection with an exhibit of its world-famous collection of Monets. The full-sized photographs will show several of the impressionist paintings before and after they were cleaned of color-obscuring varnish...
Five of the six stolen paintings, including works by 19th century Impressionist Eugene Boudin, 17th century painter Gerrit Berckhyde and American landscape artists Twachtman and Gifford, were on loan from Harvard's Fogg Art Museum...
Adrian Harris and Louise Cart-wright arrived at their spacious shell in Hollis on the first day dorms opened in September. Things began well enough as the two of them unpacked their belongings and decided, compatibly where to hang their impressionist prints and ivy pots, and agreed on where to place the beds, desks and chairs. There was not a whole lot of room for creativity, but the process occupied most of the first week-end of freshman week and provided ample time for the two to discuss their families, high schools and become acquainted. Adrian and Louise discovered that...
...life. People are having dinner, and while they're having it, their future happiness may be decided or their lives may be shattered." In presenting vivid, selective glimpses of ordinary life, Chekhov simultaneously plumbs the nature of existence with its brevity, hope, joy and sorrow. He is an impressionist rather than a photographer. In his plays we know that virtually nothing has happened, but we feel that much has been said...
Perhaps Polk could do it, but no modern President can. "I've reserved for myself only the things I have to do," Jimmy Carter says. But everything still revolves around the President. He sits in his study-with pastorals by American impressionist painters on his wall, his bookshelves laden with biographies of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson, Kennedy-and seems very much alone. But all things converge upon him, and there is a constant flow of people and ideas. Richard Nixon's lieutenants tried to protect Nixon from such intrusions. Within reason, Carter seems almost...