Word: shades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five-minute stroll across a gleaming white bridge that spans the Guadalquivir River in Seville. On one / side, near the monastery where Christopher Columbus was once buried, rise the extravagant pavilions of the Universal Exposition. There, 250 fountains gurgle, 325,000 newly planted trees and shrubs shade the weary, and 96 restaurants replenish the hungry. But once over the bridge, sidewalks crumble and the highway dead-ends in a stinking garbage dump known as El Vacie. Within earshot of Expo 92's loudspeakers, 500 Sevillians elbow one another for their daily water ration from a small fountain...
...NOON in Harvard Yard, and for the most part, the drilling has stopped. Construction crews, breakage from their work on the Yard's water main, lounge in the shade of tall elm trees to eat their lunch...
...loved the tall, ancient elm that once stood in front of my first-year dormitory, Holworthy Hall. On sunny days, I savored the moments I spent sitting in its shade, reading and talking with friends as they passed by on their way to class. And, as flaky as it sounds, I also loved...
...there was the venerable tree, which, as the year progressed, achieved "friend" status for me and my roommate, Sonya. Not only did the tree provide shade for daydreaming and procrastinating, it also became the final resting place of Sonya's pepper plant. Her miniature plant had attempted suicide not once, but twice by leaping from our window sill...
...mainstream of Guercino's graphic work was his studies for commissions. He worked in many media -- chalk, charcoal, crayon, pencil -- but his favorite was pen and ink wash, from which he produced brilliant summaries of movement, light and shade. The trace of the pen twists and flourishes, now with a liquid agitation, now in sheaves of parallel hatching as tense as wires. Nodes of darkness in a head or down the flank of a torso link up across the whiteness of the paper, and the fearlessness of tonal range attests to Guercino's mastery. He could work passages of light...