Word: paled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...except for some stray commas and capital letters which are left white. This laborious doodling produces now and again some pretty moire effects, like watered silk, but that is all, and the all is virtually nothing. It is, however, more than Robert Hunter's piece, which consists of pale gray rectangular grids, the ghosts of Carl André's floor tiles, stenciled on the museum wall, adding the consolation of near invisibility to the muteness of complete banality...
Whatever the administrative inconveniences the Buckley bill creates for college registrars, they say, whatever the disruption of the traditional recommendation-writing system it causes, there still is an overriding necessity to extend right-to-know legislation to higher education. The "bureaucratic hassles" pale next to the civil libertarian principle at stake, they...
...could finally be sampled when the firm recently began releasing 200,000 cases of its first varietals on a market earlier entered by such other California wineries as Lamont and Inglenook Navelle. Among the best are three white wines of French ancestry: a dry aromatic Sauvignon Blanc, a smooth pale Chenin Blanc and a Colombard, a rich, fruity wine that is somewhat sweeter than its French cousin. Gallo has also produced several red varietals, including a full-bodied Barbera, similar to the wine grown in Italy's Piedmont. A surprise to many familiar with European varieties...
...would sometimes weep and kiss the foreheads of soldiers killed in battle. He was remarkably observant, sometimes with a grisly poetry: "Saw a lot of dead Germans yesterday frozen in funny attitudes. I did not have my color camera, which was a pity, as their faces were a pale claret color." Gradually he crystallized his personality into a hard, violent mask. "My private opinion," he wrote in 1945, "is that practically everyone but myself is a pusillanimous son of a bitch...
...courtroom lull in the jury selection process, John Ehrlichman, baggy-eyed and subdued, bent purposefully over a yellow legal pad. The normally dour H.R. Haldeman, his crew cut turned sleekly long, glanced tentatively at his onetime friend, but got no encouragement. Before stepping out to smoke his pipe, a pale, drawn, considerably older-looking John Mitchell, 61, had sat aloof. Once the nation's chief law enforcer as Attorney General, he now faced criminal charges for the second time...