Word: peach
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...aesthetics of the church complement the dance in unexpected ways. The stained glass filters the waning light and by 6 p.m. the church is awash in a peach and cobalt glow. As twilight approaches, the dancer’s bending shadows are cast on the church’s stone walls. The audience seated in an intimate three-tier platform directly in front of the dancers challenges the traditional distance between performer and viewer. Cabaret-like tables pepper the tiers. Reminiscent of smoke-filled clubs, the Weimar republic and Marlene Dietrich, Mateo says the tables allow the audience...
...these drawings? We learned to draw with bulky, square crayons, ones that made broad strips of color across the page. We weren’t allowed to draw with outlines, not ever, and every year, the teacher removed the black crayons from each box and replaced them with peach. Some of my black classmates later claimed the exchange was yet another manifestation of the Eurocentric, whitewashed nature of our supposedly alternative and multicultural education...
...starts with strawberries - shown in hues from white to the familiar scarlet and the rarer black - and other "aggregate" fruits like raspberries, currants and gooseberries. Next come stone fruits - cherries that deepen in shade from pale orange-red to deep purple; plums in all the primary colors; apricots; peaches; nectarines. He includes pineapples - brought to Europe by Columbus and one of the more popular fruits of the 18th and 19th centuries - as well as grapes, melons and nuts, before ending with pears and apples. Brookshaw wanted to promote "the highest flavored fruit, and from the earliest to the latest period...
...flunking this test. While they were making the movie last year, they were not privy to any FBI memos from Arizona about some weird guys taking flight training. They were probably, justifiably, pleased with their plausible, entertaining variations on standard Tom Clancy themes. Good, for example, to substitute peach fuzzy Ben Affleck for the more grizzled Harrison Ford as the novelist's surrogate, Jack Ryan. He's such a kid; why would the President and his cabinet pay attention to him? Good to have Morgan Freeman as an amusingly bemused CIA chief and mentor to Ryan, intrigued by the latter...
...Watson’s own egoism. His final description of the woman with enough fortitude to marry him does little to neutralize the sour taste already in the reader’s mouth: “Now, more than thirty years later, she remains very much a sweet peach...