Word: patina
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Moore, widely regarded as the foremost British sculptor of the century, created the work at his foundry in Nowack, Germany, in the early 1970s as part of an edition of seven identical sculptures. The sculpture, which is six feet high, is cast in brass with a gold patina...
...election boycott was a public rebuke for Marcos, who had specifically scheduled the elections to give his 16-year rule a patina of legitimacy. He particularly wanted to show the world-and the U.S.-that he had at least partially restored democracy before he goes to the North-South economic summit in Mexico City this October. Marcos charged that the boycotters were collaborating with Muslim separatists and other outlawed groups, planning a wave of violence...
Four musicals of the past decade - Company, Follies, A Chorus Line and Ballroom - give a show like Woman of the Year the ashen patina of Pompeii. Those musicals released themes and prompted questions of resonance. Whence came the ravaged joys of marriage? How may one survive the illusions of youth and the disenchantments of middle age? Did the dance of life do for me what I did for love? And how may one dance under the pin drift of mechanical Stardust without the pipedream of romance...
...history and the resonance of those fragments are so strong that even out of chronological sequence they form their own associations, like a Joseph Cornell collage. Some of the colors may be psychedelic, but the shadings are the pastel of memory, the patina made of remembered melody. Lennon, the only wedded Beatle -he had married Cynthia in 1962 and had a son, Julian-had early been typed as the most restless, outspoken and creative of the group, even though he led, outwardly, the most settled life. There was paradox in this popular portrait, just as there was considerable tension...
...patina, however, has neither obscured nor answered the most troubling question about Reagan. Put starkly, that question is whether he is smart enough to be President. The U.S. has seldom demanded that its chief executive officers be intellectuals, of course. But clear-eyed realism, sensitive and discriminating judgment, a feel for power relationships, instinct born of at least a general knowledge of how the System works are all demanded in a President...