Word: pinking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what point does an array of colored squares in a regular grid begin to turn into a recognizable image? The question touches on the mystery of Realist painting--how it is, for instance, that when looking close up at a Velasquez you see a flurry of gray-and-pink spots and streaks, and when you move back a couple of feet, that same patch has become a glistening silver embroidery on rose velvet. All of Close's art recalls his fixation on this effect, the brain seeking illusion in pattern, questing for clues: Close will break a face down into...
...heavy drinker and was lackadaisical in his work, should have been dismissed long before he came under suspicion. But the CIA in the past has tended to keep poor performers on the job, even in sensitive positions, fearing they might spill secrets if they got the pink slip. The Groat case shows how "it can become a counterintelligence problem when people go away unhappy," said an Administration official. In or out of the family, an angry spy can be a dangerous...
...lively question as we gaze at the pink morning of a new century, a question that vibrates with possibility and that engages both our hopes and fears: Who will be the Gorbachev of 2085? Will we have another Hitler? Who will rescue us from him? It's a historical tautology that leaders are generated by their times and that great issues produce great men. (One historian, in TIME's ranking of U.S. Presidents, observes that Calvin Coolidge was "unlucky" enough to live in boring times.) And while we can't predict the leaders of the next decade, let alone...
Gaypril--the Harvard queer community's pride month--arrived with a flurry of rainbow colors, provocative posters and pink triangles. Most of us will smile and nod at (or ignore) this little bout of activism and visibility and go our merry way. But, as with other waves of activism, Queer Harvard Month presents an opportunity for all members of the community to make a stand for something greater than ourselves--justice...
...wise one. "With Elbaz," says Richard Martin, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, "we are witnessing the arrival of a great talent." Elbaz and McCartney won more good reviews for their fall collections, shown in March. He featured luxurious skirt suits accented with fur or pink; she offered more alluring pants and rich dresses of blue satin...