Word: paint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That hope is based largely on the paintings and carvings adorning the tomb walls. Because of floods, vibrations from buses, and a leaky sewage pipe built over the tomb's entrance, only hand-size fragments remain of some of the scenes painted by ancient artists. Others, however, are nearly whole. "Some of the paint," says Weeks, "is as bright and fresh as the day it was applied...
...dead turkey seems in mourning for itself, painted mostly in black, its pink head-the sole patch of bright color-propped up against a dark brown basket that is painted with utter virtuosity, one stroke for every crescent of wicker. To see such passages (others are the lacy scribbles of wet black paint that define the soft body feathers) is to realize why Goya's ability to summon up a single form with a single gesture, fusing the brush mark to the form depicted, was such an inspiration to Edouard Manet half a century later. The stiffness of death...
...left the chamber in a huff even before Reed spoke. "He [Reed] represents a dangerous trend in this country. We should keep religion and politics separate," Cohen said later. Another state senator, Jeanne Shaheen, a Democratic stalwart, heard Reed out. But she also was offended. She said, "Anytime you paint yourself as having the right answers because of a direct connection to God, that's very dangerous...
...studying prosody is as natural as a painter learning to draw before he learns to paint. That's not to say that they must write in form for the rest of their lives. But they should know it exists before they reject it. As a writer I find it useful to have all the tools that I can before making choices. Similarly, I want my students to know all they can before they choose what to accept or reject...
This difficulty is something inherent to themediun of acting, Lemmon said, because "a writercan write, a painter can paint, but an actorcannot act unless there is an audience...