Word: paled
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...together sheets pinned with red and white paper flowers. He is in Bagua, a dusty town in the north Peruvian jungle known more for its rice growing than for its literary sophistication. As the primarily Indian audience of several thousand watches, a partially toothless man wearing sunglasses and a pale blue guayabera hoarsely yells, "Mario, Presidente! Mario, Presidente!" Then the candidate speaks, promising, if he is elected this coming Sunday, to bring prosperity to the Amazonas province. "In this region," he proclaims, "the future of Peru is hidden!" As his words echo through the primitive loudspeakers, the crowd reacts enthusiastically...
...high point was a Scotch symphony of plaids ranging from sporty separates to opulent evening costumes, a Highland fling of color. In recent years it has become a form of rude sport to guess how the designer would look when he took his bow -- lean and fit or pale and puffy. But when he was absent, the crowd filed out subdued and thoughtful. This rich, elaborate kingdom misses its king...
When bats swoop low in the glooming night, and street lamps cast pale glimmers on the sidewalks, it is the hour of the Tasty...
...periodic genocides. The red of the flag is not nearly as deep as the pool of blood which flowed out of Ireland as Oliver Cromwell reduced the population from 1,466,000 to 616,000 in one decade in the mid-17th century. The white is not as pale as the faces of the millions who died during the famine of the 1840s while the British estate owners exported Irish wheat and livestock to pay for their extravagant lifestyles...
Moskowitz, 54, was a slow developer, and has remained a decidedly uneven artist. But he never fell into the ghastly Warhol ethos that gelded so many talents in the '80s. The show starts with early collages involving paper bags and window blinds, pale elegant things haunted by Jasper Johns. It proceeds through a prolix series of paintings from the '60s that depict the corner of an imaginary "ideal" and utterly banal room with no furniture in it, done in very close-valued colors that turn the image into a benign parody of Ad Reinhardt's black paintings. Odd little signs...