Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sense of surface, texture and inflection that becomes extravagantly, almost morbidly, refined. His figures made of butterfly wings are exquisite; looking at some of his surfaces, particularly in the later collages and "Texturologies" of the 1950s, one finds oneself comparing them to the tarnished and mottled silver leaf on a Japanese screen or to richly tanned and patinated leather. Doubtless some of them present insoluble problems for the conservator -- see them now, they won't be around in another 50 years -- and yet, in a perverse way, they look like the work of a craftsman-artist obsessed with nuance...
...check the apples and pears for viroid scarring and spotting. Agriculture Department scientists announced that they have developed a test that takes only two months: botanists graft a branch of the imported tree to a healthy plant, let it grow, then examine sap from a new twig or leaf for viroids...
...demonstrate, lastingly, that Brian and the Beach Boys made luminous music. If not all the music in this set made history at first, it can take its proud place in history now. There are 141 songs on this set -- more than six hours of music. Compilers Mark Linett, David Leaf and Andy Paley have included every one of the group's Top 40 hits, along with 40 previously unreleased tracks and assorted radio spots. The collection offers evidence of Brian's emotional delicacy and creative resiliency, from the unreleased H.E.L.P. Is on the Way, with its self-mocking references...
...Leaf, co-director of Response, a student run counseling group; and Tina M. D'Elia, of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, emphasized that their organizations are available to students who have been raped or assaulted. "We'll believe you. We offer a non-judgmental ear," said Leaf...
...proselytizing has inspired its own paraphernalia. Some aficionados hollow out Phillies Blunt cigars and fill them with dope. (For those unsure of the technique, rapper Redman's new song How to Roll a Blunt provides instructions.) PHILLIES BLUNT T shirts have gone mainstream, sometimes topped off with the marijuana-leaf baseball caps that have replaced X caps as the hot hat on the street...