Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebellious painters of every era, he believed that his contemporaries never painted what they saw-only what professors had bullied them into believing they saw. In Whistler's magical eyes, all natural objects appeared to be misty, intangible "arrangements," "harmonies" and "symphonies" constructed of overlapping tones of light & shade-which may be why he crept up on an artist absorbed in painting a stone-for-stone facsimile of St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice and chalked on his back in large letters: "l AM TOTALLY BLIND...
...paste thought-provoking newspaper articles on his daughters' boudoir mirrors, made them eat ground-up egg shells to add calcium for brain food, and urged them to sit under a mango tree in the family patio because he has received some of his best inspiration in its shade...
...roams Manhattan in winter and enjoys the seacoast in summer, she paints sand dunes, dilapidated beach shacks, blistered city sidewalks and budding trees. Most of the time her subjects become misty almost phosphorescent fantasies. Sometimes sne turns sharply realistic and does a meticulous study of a battered window shade or a pair of old shoes. One of her best: Emmett Kelly, a sympathetic portrait of the sadeyed circus clown...
...rather than relying on "grilling" suspects. Sir James F. Stephen, the noted English criminologist, made the classic explanation of the background of the rule, when he quoted with approval a remark about occasional violations of the immunity by Indian policemen: "It is far pleasanter to sit comfortably in the shade rubbing red pepper into a poor devil's eyes than to go about in the sun hunting up evidence." In a discriminating examination of the arguments for and against the constitutional right, John H. Wigmore, the distinguished American legal writer, concludes: "For the sake, then, not of the guilty...
...great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides. The caves that surround the Neapolitan gulf fell into a profounder shade, each giving forth from the darkness its chiming or its booming sound. Triumph had passed from Greece and wisdom from Egypt, but with the coming on of night they seemed to regain their lost honors, and the land that was soon to be called Holy prepared in the dark its wonderful...