Word: pallidity
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...town. Which isn't to say the Whitney has done the subject full justice. Its heart being where it is, the museum needed lots and lots of space to present a mass of trivia and threadbare junk from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa., pointlessly documenting the pallid maestro's effect on advertising and fashion, under the title "The Warhol Look/Glamour Style Fashion." So the Whitney's out-of-house curator, Jane Livingston, found the space for Diebenkorn whittled down to one floor and a small entry gallery of the museum, which is nothing like enough for a just...
Observers of the Chinese scene speculated that Jiang's swim was designed not only to make him appear more charismatic to Americans but also to reassure the Chinese that he remains vigorous. Rumors spread last summer that he had suffered a heart attack after he appeared pallid at the ceremonies for the hand-over of Hong Kong to China...
Fifteen months after taking over as chief of Sunbeam, "Chainsaw Al" Dunlap has cut half of the company's 12,000 jobs ? and quadrupled the stock price, from a pallid $12 to over $49. Now he's putting it up for sale...
When the last chief of the Soviet Union's KGB published his memoirs last year, David Remnick went to see him in Moscow. He found that while Vladimir Kryuchkov had turned pallid and squinty, he was still a man with ambitions. "I think I have real potential," the spymaster said, urging Remnick to give his book a plug in print. Now there's a tidy tombstone for the cold war: the former jailer of the old "evil empire" scrounging for free publicity in the West...
...writer Alex Garland, 27. The reason it takes half of Garland's moody tale for Kerouac's ghost to tap the reader on the shoulder is that the feel of the two novels could not be more different. On the Road was loony, funny, electric; The Beach is listless, pallid, drifting without object...