Word: palely
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...melancholy, or, in the area of abstraction, Erick Stenberg. In the 1960s and '70s, Stenberg's work was a prolonged meditation on constructivism and suprematism, the chief movements of the "classical" Russian avant-garde in the years just before and after the revolution: finely tuned planar constructions in a pale, deep space. Lately, in a way that parallels Malevich's return to peasant themes in the 1920s, Stenberg has deepened his color and turned to images of a remote village where he spends part of his time: bare roads, cottages, grave markers, religious symbols like the fish and the Cross...
...Cyclone fence and metal bars encircle the stage. Like a caged animal, a slender young woman in black paces back and forth. Suddenly, she rattles the prison door, her pale features exposed by the spotlight. "Three hundred forty-nine days! Three hundred forty-nine days!" she screams. "Bite on your hat, anything to keep from sobbing!" Few in the audience at Moscow's Sovremennik Theater stifle the emotion inspired by such searing scenes from Eugenia Ginzburg's memoirs of the Gulag, Journey into the Whirlwind. An innocent victim of the Stalinist purges, the heroine endures humiliating interrogations, strip searches...
SOME miscalculating psychiatrists performed a series of tests in the 1960s to discover which hue of color relieved feelings of fear and anxiety. After the study found that students would feel "more comfortable" if their exam books were a soft, pale blue, universities and high schools began to buy the now infamous "blue books...
...Tower's just-say-no theatrics pale in comparison with the price paid by Louis Sullivan, who was approved last week as Secretary of Health and Human Services. To avoid possible confirmation complications, Sullivan renounced all claims to nearly $500,000 in severance pay and deferred compensation legally owed him by the Morehouse School of Medicine. Even Senate Democrats wondered aloud if Sullivan's excessive concern with appearances did not overstep the bounds of financial prudence. Meanwhile, George Bush's ethics commission solemnly debated whether a top Government official should be entitled to royalties if he composed a hit song...
Lewis defended the legitimacy of investors--including universities like Harvard--who use LBOs, saying even educational institutions should be allowed to "use the free market." But he added that "South Africa is beyond pale" because of its policy of apartheid...