Word: pits
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Working from photographs -- whether specially taken for the painting or clipped from the press -- produced some of Sickert's most engrossing images. Among them are his 1929 portrait of the novelist Hugh Walpole and The Miner, circa 1935: a man just out of the pit, fiercely kissing his wife, an abrupt and passionate painting imbued with sooty grain that reminds one of late Goya. Photographs also enabled Sickert to produce, in 1936, what is probably the last portrait of a British royal personage that can claim serious aesthetic merit: Edward VIII, emerging from a limousine, clutching his black fur busby...
...private life. In the absence of Weinberger's trial, Bush's own notes may still lead to prosecution if he has not been careful enough in this latest release of facts. Lawrence Walsh much inevitably remain on the payroll until he finally gets to the bottom of this pit of deception...
...doing very well right now," said Salvation Army kettle-worker Lawrence Battle, who is stationed right outside the Pit entrance to the Harvard T-station...
Certain things make a reviewer nervous upon sitting down in a theater: a "pit" orchestra that seems larger than the stage, actors wandering about in character ten minutes before the lights go down, a mob of little kids running all over the place and, above all, going to see the original version of a movie musical you didn't like very much to begin with...
Sure, long term financial solvency for this nation is a laudable goal unless his deep pockets might be touched. The United States faces an enormous task if it is to climb out of the pit of debt that was dug in the 1980s. Actions such as Eisner's are simply another shovelful of dirt thrown in the face of those who seek a better...