Word: pinkness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sockets. Picasso had been looking at archaic Spanish carvings from Osuna. Now he stressed the sculptural, instead of the linear and atmospheric: solid impacted form, not fleeting mood. His 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein, almost leaden in its pictorial ineloquence, marked the start of this change, and the pink stony torsos of Two Nudes, 1906, delineate the period's end. In between lay some magnificent paintings, such as the Seated Female Nude with Crossed Legs, 1906, whose solidities of thigh, trunk and breasts anticipate the swollen torsos of Picasso's "classical" women 15 years later. It was one more element...
Then the real Lucia Chase finally appeared (only she knows how old she is, but she looked effervescent and radiant in a fluffy pink dress). Alone in the spotlight, she seemed ill at ease and quickly beckoned all the dancers out from the wings. She hugged old comrades and youngsters just up from the corps. Later she likened them all to her clan...
...simple as possible and should not occupy more than 10% of the plot. Steps and pathways were carved into the rocks. Lava was used to form the walls; for variety, they were sometimes stained rust, pale green, pale blue or ?the favorite color of the Mexican peasant?bright pink. Water was run over craggy stone or along the wall tops, seeping down to aid the growth of moss. On the street side, the walls were blank, shutting out the city and its noise. Buyers were few at first, but eventually the once despised El Pedregal lava plain became Mexico...
...lake, whose still surface reflects the thickly set eucalyptus trees. In another subdivision devoted to horsemen, Barrag�n converted two abandoned horse troughs into a heroically scaled fountain: a massive red earth stucco wall carries an aqueduct that pours water into the pool, all set off by a long pink stucco wall that makes approaching riders look like figures in an Egyptian frieze...
...across the country, from the aging industrial centers of the Northeast to the suburban sprawl of the Southwest, pink unemployment notification slips are beginning to turn up in pay envelopes. When blue-collar employees get the news, employers normally say that those being laid off are made "redundant." But when announcements of wholesale dismissals of excutives are made, the gentler euphemism of "furloughing" is usually used...