Word: paled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Making the point in music required a storm of inventiveness, and Gerhard, 67, proved himself to be a resourceful composer. Violin bows drawn across cymbals' edges make their pale, tortured protest as they create an eerie, shimmering climate of fear. A nail file raked across piano strings evokes wind against telegraph wires. The murmur and patter of the rats in the streets is sounded by cellists tapping clamped strings...
Segal's spooky similars, now populating Manhattan's Green Gallery, would have earned him a burning for wizardry during the Inquisition. His pale zombies "present the mystery of a human being," he says. Like the remains of Pompeians preserved in volcanic ash, they dispute the border line between art and life. Often Segal's mummies occupy an environment with real objects-a car door, a Coke machine, or a false house front. For a future sculpture, he recently bought a genuine phone booth and took it to his studio, which is on a New Jersey chicken farm...
...devoid of inward psychology or narrative in a marriage of abstract and realistic techniques. He achieves what he calls "an ambiguity between a realistic shape and a painting shape." In The 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...
Bolivian politics is a game of Byzantine intrigue in which only the master of sly maneuver can hope to survive. In and out of office, the master for the past dozen years has been moderate President Víctor Paz Estenssoro, 56, a pale, impassive economist whose term ends this year. After fending off successive threats from an old foe on the far left and a rising political figure on the right, Paz has now paved the way for almost certain re-election...
...world sniffs at the new in a graceful London square, marred by the tidy vulgarity of a building bearing the legend: Thomas Crapper, Sanitary Engineer by Appointment to His Majesty King George V. Nearby lives a pale, spoiled young aristocrat, Tony (James Fox), who hires a "gentleman's gentleman" named Barrett. Clearly relishing the most substantial role of his career, Dirk Bogarde, perfect as Barrett, assumes a tea-party facade through which the gleam of hellfire is always dimly perceptible. He sabotages the young man's proper fiancee (Wendy Craig) with innuendo, attempting to drive...