Word: paled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...house rocker, a boy steeped in mother-love, a true son of the church, a matinee idol who's only kidding, a man with too many rough edges for anyone ever to smooth away. Something in me yearns for a settling of affairs, he said with his pale music and his tired movies; on the other hand, he answered with his rock 'n' roll and occasional blues, I may break away at any time...
...every known Latin writer, from Cicero to Plautus. He recommended "a complete absorption in statues," but "one must avoid the effect of stone." Rubens' large altarpiece, still in Antwerp Cathedral, of the Descent from the Cross, 1611-14, demonstrates exactly what he meant. The figure of Christ, the pale, dead God sliding down the cross into the arms of the living, is a visual quotation from Michelangelo-the kind of thing artists had been doing for 70 years. But Rubens did it in an entirely new way. Michelangelo had invented a tragic structure for the human body; Rubens invented...
...coffins were delivered to U.S. officials, who identified the bodies, resealed the coffins and carried them to the military demarcation line, where U.S. troops draped the American flag over each and bore it away. While the receipts were being signed, a Russian-made sedan drew up and Schwanke, looking pale and worn but otherwise in good shape, stepped out. Later the official North Korean news agency, monitored in Tokyo, said Schwanke had made a public apology at the city of Kae-song, five miles north of Panmunjom, shortly before his release...
...week at 78, of a viral infection, at a hospital near his home in Montreux, Switzerland, that art was widely considered to include some of the best novels of the 20th century. There are three masterpieces: The Gift, written in Russian and first published in 1936, Lolita (1955), and Pale Fire (1962). In addition to 14 other novels, hundreds of poems, dozens of short stories, dramas, translations, criticism and scientific articles about butterflies, Nabokov produced one of the finest autobiographies in the English language. First published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence, the book was expanded and reissued...
Magical Memories. In nature, beauty is the beast. This is also true in much of Nabokov's fiction. The delectable nymphet Lolita has a cruel, popsicle heart. The exquisite sensibilities of her middle-aged lover Humbert Humbert are grotesquely twisted by lust. Charles Kinbote, whose magical memories feed Pale Fire, is hopelessly mad, as is Luzhin, the chessmaster in The Defense...