Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rats!" said Vag, as he snapped up the shade and looked at the rain. "Rubbers again...
...sorts of suggestions were made to explain the Explorer's peculiar behavior over the equatorial region. Perhaps a weird magnetic field was shunting all cosmic rays away from the equator. Maybe the alternation of sunlight and shade was affecting the Geiger counter. No explanation really worked...
...series. Lapses occur when he adds colored ink to the black and white woodcut. Munakata, it seems, is not in any way as gifted a colorist as he is a draftsman. His heavy, almost garish, coloring emphasizes how far he has turned from the nice distinctions of tone and shade in eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese prints. This very simple style, more Western than Oriental, mainly produces naive results; the childish, pseudo-folk art atmosphere of Stones in Water and Hawk Woman is most disturbing. However, the best color print, Nirvana, is so excellent that one is sorely tempted...
...easy and effective. Both by blocking and by a contrast in acting styles, he keeps it clear that the Six Characters are part of a fundamentally different order of being than that of the troupe whose rehearsal they invade. The style he has found for the Characters is a shade overblown for my taste, but one of the Six says, "We're all a little theatrical when we're excited," and perhaps Mr. Aaron is in duty bound to substantiate this...
Despite the talk of inflation, U.S. prices are remarkably steady. The Bureau of Labor Statistics wholesale-price index last week stood at 119.4% of the 1947-49 average, a shade above the December level and only a fraction above a year ago. Several major raw materials even registered sharp decreases. Lead was marked down from 12? to 11? per Ib. when the metal piled up despite import quotas. Because of a worldwide glut in oil, British Petroleum Co. lopped 18? per bbl. off the price of Mideast oil. Creole Petroleum cut 5? to 15? off the price of Venezuelan...