Word: paled
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...period when he found his own vision, the ground has fallen away and the viewer is suspended, gazing at pure painted surfaces - and beyond them into unreadable depths. The only features are the verticals that became his theme. In The Word I (1946), brown paint is scraped over pale blue, segmented by a vertical ray. Onement III (1949) is a version of the painting he saw as a personal breakthrough. About the height of a man, the canvas has one scarlet stripe on an opaque burgundy background. The surface is hardly modulated, so that details such as the rough canvas...
Branigan returns to his experiment. He scrapes the pale orange-red contents of the tub into a plastic bucket and takes a taste. Again, I’m handed a spoon...
...stars with Sarandon, likes to recount how he bagged the part: "Kieran comes skipping in and takes one look at me and says, 'You look like s___.' That was it. I knew he was the kid." The incident wasn't a big deal to Kieran, who shares Rory's pale skin and heavy-lidded eyes, which are useful for expressing boredom. "He had rings under his eyes, so yeah, I guess I told him he looked like s___," Kieran says. He shrugs. Business as usual...
What really makes Americans fat? Your story said it all in this sentence: "We are fat because we consume too many calories and expend too few." All other explanations--genes, hormones, carbs and fats--strike me as pale excuses. Want to lose weight? Get off the couch, get off the fad diet, get smart about what you eat, and get moving. TIM HEFFERNAN Somerville, Mass...
Graff says that while the staffers have “contacts and resources beyond the pale of our abilities” they nevertheless “foster student initiative with their suggestions...