Word: paled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Computer science concentrators are freaks. They grow pale from lack of sunlight and get RSI. They are going to make a lot of money on the Internet...
...eccentricities will pale in comparison to second husband Michael Jackson...
...layers of canvas were used. Turning over the Turners, she placed the 200-year-old canvas backings under glass. Because a horizontal wooden support directly bisected the back of the canvas, a region of the backing was left less weathered, lighter in tone than the rest, so that a pale horizontal bar runs across the middle of each. The canvases look like a miniature Rothkos in sepia tones. Rothko wanted to create "the modern landscape," so the association comes full circle, again...
...poreless complexion. (Which brings me to an earth-shattering question. Who orchestrated Nicole Kidman's makeover? Check out 1989's Dead Calm and you'll see a completely different Mrs. Cruise. She looks fat, frumpy! She's got loads of freckles! Her hair is nappy! Now Nicole is deathly pale, skinnier than Calista Flockhart, and there's never a freckle in sight...
...force at work the surface is thematic examination of the man's character, and what that character represents in a broader context. "I think the central idea is influenced by Nabokov, who probably more than anyone else conceived this idea of the self-deceived, clueless narrator. Think of Pale Fire and Lolita. These are narrators who have no idea whatsoever of what's going on. Fred is certainly an example of that kind of clueless narrator...