Word: purplish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week huge purplish black jellyfish, Chrysaora achlyos, not spotted since 1989, appeared near San Diego. Rarer still, Javan rhinoceroses were photographed this spring. They have been feared extinct since shortly after the Vietnam War. And in 1997 and '98, at least two coelacanths, rare fish, were caught by Indonesian fishermen. Prior to 1938, the fish was believed to have been extinct for more than 25 million years...
...School is not the obvious failed experiment that Lamont is. Recently renovated, it tries not to be modern and mimics older styles with art deco study lamps and bits of marble here and there. But it's phony: the energy-saving bulbs still give off that wholly-unnatural purplish light and the turnstiles--they speak for themselves. Even without those kinds of mistakes, there's no accounting for dust or all the other details that reassure a person that generations have come before. They have deposited wisdom--which can now be absorbed--and they have departed. It makes a fellow...
...School is not the obvious failed experiment that Lamont is. Recently renovated, it tries not to be modern and mimics older styles with art deco study lamps and bits of marble here and there. But it's phony: the energy-saving bulbs still give off that wholly-unnatural purplish light and the turnstiles--they speak for themselves. Even without those kinds of mistakes, there's no accounting for dust or all the other details that reassure a person that generations have come before. They have deposited wisdom--which can now be absorbed--and they have departed. It makes a fellow...
...first time I saw her in person was in the early '70s at one of my father's "guitar pulls" in his living room, when a lot of musicians and songwriters previewed their new work. I was about 19 years old, with purplish hair and insouciance to spare, and the honored guests were George Jones and Tammy Wynette. I sat slack-jawed and transfixed as they sang (We're Not) the Jet Set. ("No, We're not the Jet Set/ We're the old Chevrolet set/ Our steak and martini/ Is draft beer with weenie"*). She sat on the plush...
From black-and-white, Close moved to color, but again in a system-dominated way. Color printing is done with three colors: cyan (a greenish blue), magenta (a purplish red) and yellow. Close took his photo, had color separations made, and then proceeded to render each square of the canvas with each of the colors, successively, exquisitely controlling the amount of each hue per pixel. There was a yellow face, then a blue overlay, and then with the magenta one--presto, full exact color. No room for deviation or correction. Paint-by-numbers raised to the nth degree. It goes...