Word: shade
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...particulars of a grove (Merriam-Webster: "a small wood without underbrush") are not immediate. How many trees are necessary, and of what kind; how old, how spreading? How must they give shade, and how look in the rain? We have no olive trees in Cambridge, and few citizens regularly in togas; why, then, should the University stand on ceremony as regards an actual tree...
This strain of Puritan denial of the graven image seems never to have quite vanished from American art. But how can you create a way of painting that is devoid, or at least as short as possible, of the delicious pleasures of light, shade, drama, color and suggestive texture--not to mention the primal infantile pleasure of smearing colored mud around on a virginal surface--associated with making a picture? The piety of this search, seen as an act of exemplary denial, is the ghost that haunts the machine of American abstraction--and the emotionless grids of LeWitt's work...
...well-played game, plenty of canned beer and some tasty dip. I'm not sure if Modell's longtime association with the Browns and inarguably rotten karma will jinx the Ravens. But it doesn't really matter to Browns fans like me - all we'll see is yet another shade of suffering: Modell and his championship Baltimore Ravens in football ecstasy...
...like, 'Oh, boy! What was I thinking?'" His feet rest on the coffee table in his office, next to a tiny version of himself, a Braveheart doll wearing a kilt and waving a sword. "I think time makes one more aware of the light and shade in human behavior," he says. "Most people get better with time. The sad part is, you get old and ugly as you get better." Then he laughs, knowing that even with the aging, there's not much for him to be sad about...
...like, 'Oh, boy! What was I thinking?'" His feet rest on the coffee table in his office, next to a tiny version of himself, a "Braveheart" doll wearing a kilt and waving a sword. "I think time makes one more aware of the light and shade in human behavior," he says. "Most people get better with time. The sad part is, you get old and ugly as you get better." Then he laughs, knowing that even with the aging, there's not much for him to be sad about...