Word: lustrous
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...Lustrous, Not Lacking...
...Kittiwake and the John Walton, a Maine seascape of two boats, a hull and its shadow are equal pale blues that bobble on a pink sea. It is reality, but a reality that tells how light behaves at sunset and how the artist transforms it into a lustrous image lacking any intimations of nostalgia...
...Lawyer Melvin Belli asked a million dollars for his clients. Belli was representing the widow and children of William Kapell, the brilliant 31 -year-old pianist killed in an air crash in 1953 while returning home from Australia. At the trial in 1961, Belli bolstered his argument with a lustrous array of musical talent to testify to Kapell's genius and high earning power - Rudolf Serkin, Artur Rubinstein, Van Cliburn, Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein, Leopold Stokowski. But before the jury could award a penny, it had to decide on liability, and on that question the musicians were...
...folded and kneaded. Bolstered by armatures, the wax sometimes bellies out like breastplates, sometimes ripples like drapery in a breeze. He builds a mold around the wax with brick dust and melts out the wax. When the molten bronze pours in, the fluid planes of the sculpture retain in lustrous metal the quickening touch of the artist's hands. Capralos also makes minuscule bronzes, some no more than three inches high, which have the pulpy look of ancient artifacts dug up after centuries. Some are whimsical toys others complex hieroglyphs-one called Sacrifice is at once bull and matador...
Instead of picking one official architect-such as James Gamble Rogers, who weighted the campus down with his Girder Gothic of the late 1920s and '30s, Yale turned to a number of the most lustrous and far-out contemporary master builders: Eero Saarinen, Gordon Bunshaft, Paul Rudolph, Philip Johnson and Louis Kahn. They adhered to no single style, only to the modern mood, which freely explores how steel, glass and reinforced concrete can most beautifully be bent to shelter man. Their stunning results have made Yale more of a laboratory than a museum...