Word: paintings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ultimately, the awkward script undermines Purlie's message. Oddly placed one-liners mar serious moments; incongruous scenes paint Purlie a fool or a liar after his most moving and far-reaching sermons. The grand climax exemplifies this confusion. Purlie, finally ensconced in his church, passionately orates the beauties of being Black...before his first integrated audience. The delivery is emotional, the sentiment compelling, except when one tries to reconcile it with Charlie Cotchipee's presence and with the wierd shenanigans that made Purlie's dream come true...
...assortment of puzzles and brainteasers. Perhaps on the theory that people are just plain tired of landscapes and hockey players, thought, the move in puzzles this year seems to be toward the impossible. One line--which includes a puzzle of writhing earthworms--boasts identically shaped pieces. Another, the "Wet Paint" Puzzle, fits together to make a "shiny, wet-looking, irregularly shaped puddle of paint." Definitely for the man who already has everything else...
...word, the expression . . . not ideas" and, consequently, had read Tolstoy's Anna Karenina with great care. However, very few of us were prepared for questions like "Describe Vronsky's last glimpse of Anna" (dead under the wheels of a train), and the "trick" question: "What color paint was on the walls of the room where Anna was sick?" (no paint at all-there was wallpaper...
...stone siding to the entire facade. The result was not unlike that of an Alpine goat-herder's hut. Archie Bunker may seem like a conformist, but he is, a heart, an individualist who rebels against uniformity not of his own making. He considers it his right to paint his house coral or plaid if he wants to, much as he would tattoo his biceps or select an inscription for his T shirt...
...bowerbirds rank among the most intricately amatory of avians. Some build bowers up to 8 ft. high and paint them with berry juice, using a twig as a brush. The structure serves as erotic artwork rather than as a love nest. If a female is won over, she will build a drabber, more functional nest...