Word: patinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have parts of the statue's left cheek, left neck and torch arm developed what the New York Daily News last week delicately dubbed a skin problem? The dark spots, it turns out, are acid stains, caused by pollutants that began eating away at the statue's protective patina in the 1960s and cannot be removed without endangering the delicate copper sheath. But then again, what 100-year-old lady does not have an age spot here and there...
...Cannes International Film Festival. The memory is that of the Bosnian poet Abdulah Sidran, who fashioned his script from events affecting a Muslim community in Sarajevo from 1949 to 1952. The vision belongs to Director Emir Kusturica, 31; at his touch a story of regional peculiarities takes on the patina of Chagallian surrealism...
Mating rituals on the college campus are reacquiring a rich patina of hypocrisy. "College students are much more conservative now than they used to be," says Lisa Birnbach, co-author of The Official Preppy Handbook and now creator of Lisa Birnbach's College Book. "There's more dating, more courtship, a return of women's 'reputations' and the good old double standard. People are still sneaking around to have sexual relations, but they don't talk about it. It's viewed as kind of'icky...
...more self-satisfied his work be came, a decline most evident after he moved to the Villa Medici in 1961. The measured suppleness of Balthus's paint surface now began to ossify, acquiring a thick, chalky, fresco-like appearance. It was meant to suggest the warmth and historical patina of old Roman walls, and so it did, but in a merely decorative way. "Pier rot della Francesca," the gibe of one of Balthus's contemporaries, hits the late paintings dead center...
Even the stylish patina of Lassiter's overall mediocrity is a Tootsie-tied scene during which Selleck pads around in a woman's feathered houserobe. It is the film's most entertaining moment...