Word: patinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sabi suggests patina or decomposition: the retreat of bright new substance into a world of obscurity and hints. It is what a cypress doorframe acquires after three centuries of sliding the shoji back and forth. It is what Japanese collectors got when they left their silverware to tarnish, instead of polishing it to a bright Tiffany glitter. Wabi is an older and wider concept. It conveys not the dryness and stillness of sabi, but an aristocratic use of "poor," rustic materials. Tea is the origin of much of Japanese design since the 15th century; in fact, the nearest thing...
...weathering. The owner of the villa was so proud to have her house on TV, however, that before the production crew arrived she had it painted a bright, Day-Glo yellow. The first day of filming was upset while the art department hastily tried to restore the centuries-old patina...
...think I'm going to die in a fortnight. When are you pushing off?" Quennell writes affectionately of Artist Augustus John, with his gypsy ways and tribe of illegitimate children; John was immensely popular in his heyday, yet "had nothing of the fatuous outward bloom, the glossy patina of self-approval, that goes frequently with public fame...
Spreading a blush over the pastel patina of Palm Beach, Fla., the titillating divorce-court battle between Newspaper Heir Peter Pulitzer, 52, and his estranged wife Roxanne, 31, drew to an end last week. Pulitzer, accused of having an incestuous relationship with his 26-year-old daughter, counterpunched with testimony from a family retainer suggesting that Roxanne had had a lesbian affair with Jacqueline Kimberly, 32, the wife of Kleenex Heir James Kimberly, 76. Steve Anderson, a crewman on the Pulitzers' 75-ft. yacht, stated that he had once spotted four female legs protruding from...
...French or English; clad in olive drab fatigues, they play classical pieces on a Steinway ornamented with a machine gun. Many have spent time in Europe. The most repulsive character in the movie is a suave French-speaking member of the Christian aristocracy whose hypocrisy glares through a greasy patina of European culture. The journalists talk among themselves in a glib polyglot babble that reduces their different Western nationalities into a single category as undefined and unarticulated as the Western idea of "the Middle East...