Word: patinaed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expensive floor space in new high-rise office buildings. Yet near by, millions of lower-and middle-class residents crowd ramshackle dwellings in fetid slums, and millions of fellahin till fields of wheat and rice in the Nile Delta as seasonal workers for $2 a day. In Egypt, a patina of superficial prosperity gilds a fragile economic core. The revenues from new trade policies and foreign investment are flowing to an all too visible superclass of the very rich. But at the same time, the great mass of Egyptians are struggling with overcrowding, a breakdown of critical services and lack...
...become disembodied; eerily-lit heads swathed in darkness. The carefully sculptured garden becomes a foreboding place, a jungle, at dawn. The shadows don't disappear in the sunlight, for much of the intrigue occurs in the silver blue of early morning. Such mysteriousness gives The Haunting of M the patina of a well-made gothic movie. And like many horror tales, the Haunting of M revolves around a headstrong heroine and a vengeful ghost...
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...