Word: paled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...viewer finds himself watching Meryl Streep much more closely than he is accustomed to watching actresses. More seems to be going on. It is not simply that she manages to make her face an astonishingly clear reflection of her character's complexities. It is not merely that this pale face, with its small, amused eyes and its nose long and curved as a flensing knife (when she kissed Alan Alda injudiciously in Tynan, this precarious nose displaced the flesh of his cheek up toward his eyeball), is poised fascinatingly between beauty and harshness. What makes the viewer sit forward...
...rhapsodizing over her work as though she were a gifted parrot learning, at last, to repeat a phrase, while the supercilious drawing master points to the model she must copy. In the crammed, tilted space, the heads on their distorted bodies swell grotesquely, like pale masks. Every detail of costume is there-one could dress an opera from Traversi-but the whole has gone awry: we gaze into a cuckooland of cultural pretension. Small wonder that Traversi failed to get the big commissions; but his work stays in the mind long after the more decorative things in this show...
...persisted that he was more seriously ill than either hospital or Vatican officials were willing to admit. In a prerecorded television address to the International Eucharistic Conference in Lourdes last month, John Paul appeared as a wan reflection of his former robust self. Hunched over a table, his face pale and his hands trembling, he explained that "God has permitted that at present I myself, in my own body, experience suffering and weakness...
...ocean liner QE 2 glides past the World Trade Center: elegant horizontal meeting towering verticals. The late afternoon sun lends pale, reflected fire, while the rest of the sky fills up with lowering clouds. How fortunate that Photographer George Forss, 40, happened to be there with his camera when all this happened. More fortunate still, Forss sells 11-in. by 14-in. copies of this photograph, exquisitely printed and carefully matted, for only...
...pale yellow sands There's a pair of clasped hands And an eyeball entangled with string, And a plate of raw meat, And a bicycle seat, And a Thing that is hardly a thing...