Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mansion, formerly a discreet shade of white, is now a jolting mint green. A garish copper roof is being installed. On the balustrade surrounding the mansion are a dozen life-size male and female statues, some of them nude renderings of great anatomical precision. Urns filled with pink, blue and orange plastic flowers line the property's stone and wrought-iron fence. A mosque is being built next to the swimming pool. Still to come are a basement discotheque and kennel space for twelve Great Danes (although a Beverly Hills local ordinance forbids any homeowner to keep more than...
...unconscious, often parodying Freudian symbolism but in the process probing among the tickles for that raw spot which when touched would twitch with pain. Sometimes wit--which most people think of as an aid in relieving anxiety--becomes the enemy: a steadfast shield that keeps our insides moist and pink, halting our emotional development and hindering our ability to be intimate with other people. So much...
...They gave up after that," recounted Pink, adding, "Their defense completely collapsed in the last period." Martin and Faught led the Crimson scoring jamboree of nine unanswered goals, with lots of help from sophomore standout Pete Predun, who notched four assists despite the fact that the All-American DelGiorno was keying on him all night...
Spring is, of course, nature's season of liberation, of the Japanese cherry trees bursting into pink blossom along the Tidal Basin and the great Vs of black-headed geese soaring northward toward Canada. But it does not come easily or without risk. Easter brought to Boston a snowfall of 1.3 in., a last dusting on the 85.1 in. that have engulfed the city during the past winter, the worst in 30 years. The day after the seagulls returned to International Falls, Minn., a traditional sign of spring in the coldest town in the lower 48 states, a fierce...
There are moments in Blake's large output when the linearity of his nudes becomes nearly absurd - they resemble skinned rabbits, thongs of formalized pink tendon. But against these, one must reckon such masterpieces of the imagined figure as Elohim Creating Adam, 1795, with the repressive God of the Old Testament, terrible in the weight of his beard and vast wings, waking the serpent-bound Adam to a life of toil and subjection. And his sense of dramatic terribilità, in the midst of the grotesque, was unparalleled. Few demonic images in Western art radiate such a nightmarish charge...