Word: paled
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...aura of popular fame such as no other American artist had ever known in his or her lifetime -- a flash-card recognizability that almost rivaled Picasso's. Millions of Americans who could not have picked Jasper Johns or Henri Matisse from a police lineup could identify that pale, squarish, loose-lipped face with its acne, blinking gaze and silvery...
...that when Americans go to the opera they look like they are at death's door? Perhaps it is the power of this music from long-dead times that casts a pallor of thinning hair and pale complexions on opera goers...
...THERE it is. Not knowing that we need heroes, we debunk them. Pale and sickly scholars, incapable of heroism, reveal the "truth" about the men we would do well to revere...
...face the dreadful prospect of a worldwide death toll in the tens of millions a decade from now," warned Health and Human Services Secretary Otis Bowen at a recent gathering of the National Press Club. Such earlier epidemics as typhus, smallpox and even the black death will "look very pale by comparison," he continued. "You haven't read or heard of anything...
...near the Cambodian border in 1968. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen), standing in for Stone, has dropped out of college and volunteered for the Nam, hoping to prove his manhood and his self-worth on the field of honor. The film opens with him joining the platoon clean cut and pale as linen. It ends with him being evacuated, turned black with blood and smoke. The movie is about his transition from one color to another...