Word: jeweller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the broadly patterned interiors, still lifes and self-portraits of the early '90s, with their jewel color, through the series of big decorative murals that he painted on commission. "Decorative" was no insult to Vuillard. He thought decoration one of the higher functions of art, and he was right. Even in the stubbornly worked-out compositions of his later years, Vuillard described microcosms we can still enter-hospitable and mischievous, articulate in every detail, a long triumph of sensuous integration...
...that black is now, black is profit, black is here to stay." In Chicago, Barbara Proctor, president and owner of Proctor and Gardner Advertising Inc., argues that U.S. tastes today originate in the black community, then gradually spread to more affluent whites. She therefore advises her clients-including the Jewel supermarket chain and Sears, Roebuck's local branch-to aim their ads in the Negro-oriented newspaper and radio media not only at black families but also the white students attending colleges in predominantly black communities. The agency's billings this year: almost...
...will say no more. He touches his lips to signal silence. He smiles and, miming the blowing out of a candle, he takes a thief's farewell, first the color fading, then the sad cold light of his eyes gone, and one last blinking of something-a jewel, a ring, a coin cupped in his palm, and darkness comes between us and is final...
...cabin by ringing the fire alarm. Susan only teases him more. Mike finally manages to provoke her so severely that she slaps him across the mouth, loosening the diamond of her engagement ring. Seeing a chance to redeem himself, Mike works out an incredibly elaborate scheme for recovering the jewel...
...grass country, where herds of beef cattle are fattened for slaughter. After a red sunset over the Kansas prairie, the engineer switches on the regular headlights and a rotating white Mars light, which cuts a circular cone through the dark. The shiny tops of the distant rails reflect the jewel-like green signals, a row of beckoning beacons in the night. Engineer O.K. Stewart remembers meeting a bobcat on the tracks one night. "Those old eyes were glowing as big as baseballs when we came around the curve," he says...