Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week, the Vice President was stepping onto a basketball court inside a Connecticut middle school. Gore was marking time, waiting for Janet Reno to finish her press conference so he could step up to his own battery of TV cameras and proclaim that he was out from under the shadow of a special prosecutor. While he waited, Gore shed his suit coat and strolled to the foul line, chatting with a few dozen seventh- and eighth-graders who were trying out for the school's team. He bounced the ball a time or two, looking about as casual as Gore...
...imagine for a moment that, through some sort of Career Services-style "externship" program, you could pick out that annoying guy and "shadow" him for a day, without him knowing that you were there. In your quest to explore his life, you follow him back from class to his room, where he sits around and cracks jokes with his roommates for a while before calling his mom. Over dinner, you listen as he talks with a friend who just failed a test, managing to convince her that it's not such a big deal. Later, you read over his shoulder...
Even before the curtain went up, the Boston Conservatory's "Die Fledermaus," at the Emerson Majestic, offered a visual treat. Because of the lighting in the orchestra pit, conductor Ronald Feldman's shadow covered the entire right wall of the theater. As the overture progressed, one sensed with delight the contrast between the unintentionally sinister apparition and the music's light waltzes...
Charney seems to have adjusted to life in the shadow of Harvard's ivory tower, but with a new proposal to build the Knafel Center for the Humanities just across the street from William James, he says he feels his neighborhood's character slipping away...
...hindsight one can see the components of his culminating achievement, the Ocean Park series, forming in a small, early landscape like Seawall, 1957. First, the clear marine light that seems to bathe all the forms, whether sharply cut (the tawny beach and wedges of black shadow on the left) or vaguer (the tract of scribbled green grass on the right). Second, Diebenkorn's decisiveness about tonal structure and the way sharp contrast can be used both to hollow out the space of the painting and to create a firm, flat pattern. And third, a breezy lyricism of feeling that...