Word: paled
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...foggy morning in Berlin, a yellow Mercedes from the Soviet zone drew up at the tollgate at the Heerstrasse crossing point. Two other Mercedes limousines had already arrived from the British sector, and in the pale light the exchange was effected...
Back home, on the chilly banks of the Neva in Leningrad, plenty of bodies were uncovered as swarms of pale, fleshy Russians looked for a place in the thin spring sun, the very image of a people who want the better, freer-and more stylish-life Khrushchev promises. Sounding downright capitalistic, Izvestia launched a new plan to bring about this longed-for prosperity; it suggested putting a traditional Russian drink known as kvas on the world mar ket to compete with Coca-Cola...
Making the point in music required a storm of inventiveness, and Gerhard, 67, proved himself to be a resourceful composer. Violin bows drawn across cymbals' edges make their pale, tortured protest as they create an eerie, shimmering climate of fear. A nail file raked across piano strings evokes wind against telegraph wires. The murmur and patter of the rats in the streets is sounded by cellists tapping clamped strings...
Segal's spooky similars, now populating Manhattan's Green Gallery, would have earned him a burning for wizardry during the Inquisition. His pale zombies "present the mystery of a human being," he says. Like the remains of Pompeians preserved in volcanic ash, they dispute the border line between art and life. Often Segal's mummies occupy an environment with real objects-a car door, a Coke machine, or a false house front. For a future sculpture, he recently bought a genuine phone booth and took it to his studio, which is on a New Jersey chicken farm...
...devoid of inward psychology or narrative in a marriage of abstract and realistic techniques. He achieves what he calls "an ambiguity between a realistic shape and a painting shape." In The Kittiwake and the John Walton, a Maine seascape of two boats, a hull and its shadow are equal pale blues that bobble on a pink sea. It is reality, but a reality that tells how light behaves at sunset and how the artist transforms it into a lustrous image lacking any intimations of nostalgia...