Word: paled
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...their great light most writers of another, older sort look pale and foolish. It is not an age of literary craftsmen; most of the wordsmiths (and, lacking ideas, that is what many of them are) are left to moan about bad grammar and teach composition...
...Dusseldorf in February 1982) begins, as it were, on Weimar modernism, on the strains, dislocations and terrible urgencies of a time that Kitaj, 48, is too young to have experienced directly-Europe in the '20s and '30s. Gangsters and politicians, clowns and whores, drifting intellectuals and their pale cafe groupies, the doomed, the uprooted, the crushed, the demented-such is the cast of characters. They are imagined and mixed by a mind saturated not only in literature but in fantasies about reading, straying and witnessing...
...classify all of us animal lovers with the cat worshipers who apparently have neither a sense of humor nor a sense of proportion. Anybody who can't laugh at the pale black humor of 101 Uses for a Dead Cat is sick...
...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...