Word: shade
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...vouch for the lamp whose shade was of human skin, as it was on my desk, as were several other unmounted pieces. The pieces of skin used for the lamp shades were those bearing large tattoos and were reportedly selected by "Use the Bitch" from the living inmates. The finished product was not unlike a heavy parchment, and all the items were collected by the War Crimes Commission...
...years of court fights to force a passport from the State Department, Artist Rockwell Kent, 76, longtime dabbler in odd-hued causes, prepared to leave for a tour of the Soviet Union, where a studio has just finished a documentary film on his work. Still applying a rare shade of pink to his world picture, Kent seemed worried about his warlike homeland, but the U.S.S.R., he assured reporters, "desperately desires peace...
Conversation, an exact art cultivated behind the somber oak doors of his club, reached grotesque proportions when it moved outdoors to the punch bowl, or shade tree, or Wigglesworth steps. Restraint, always a gentleman's religion, had given way to a type of familiarity which Vag thought rude and unpleasant. Grossly unpleasant...
Nadia Boulanger, recently in Cambridge to receive an honorary degree from Harvard, said of them: "These artists refuse every kind of temptation--searching for effect, facile emotion and egoism. They have attempted distribution of light and shade without diminishing the importance of a note, a rest, a rhythm, or a line. The manner in which they have attained their objectives brings back the memory of Pugno and Eugene Ysaye...
...canvas measured 15 ft. by 19 ft., was referred to by one friend as "this huge sandwich which costs the earth." In it, Monet set out to prove how the sunlight actually filters through the trees, how a real picnic looks in the forest, how color glows in the shade. It was never shown. Monet had to leave it with the innkeeper as guaranty against his unpaid bill. He recovered it, found it largely ruined by cellar dampness, and cut it into strips...