Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...show begins with James Abbott McNeil Whistler's painting, Nocturne in Black and Gold: Rag Shop, Chelsea (c. 1848) He explores the effects of shadow and light, outlining a little girl's illuminated white dress in a dimly lit storefront which encloses her in a veil of darkness. The only representational painting in the exhibit, it anchors the efforts of the later painters in their exploration of tonality in the continuum of degrees of abstraction...
...national title, Kerrigan was forced to withdraw from the competition. Her doctors said she was suffering from * thigh contusions and swelling in the knee and was unable to control a simple hop, never mind a program that included several triple jumps. The assault cast a deep shadow on her ambition to earn a medal in next month's Olympics. However, even Kerrigan's rivals admitted that she deserved to be on the U.S. team, and on Saturday night officials in Detroit selected her over the runner- up, 13-year-old Michelle Kwan. But the poignant question was whether Kerrigan would...
...developer and publisher Mort Zuckerman was chosen after an intense competition to erect a gigantic high-rise -- luxury condominiums! luxury offices! -- on government land at the southwestern corner of Central Park; he was a winner. But a coalition of liberal Manhattan swells, worried about the shadow the skyscraper would cast over the park, ruinously slowed down Zuckerman's plans; Mort was a loser. Then the commercial real estate market crashed, with Zuckerman, lucky for him, having built nothing; so he is a winner...
...must point out that the nine-inch menorah strikes me as a mere afterthought in the shadow of the towering evergreen. However, I am equally opposed to both displays, because religious symbols should not be displayed in the public sphere...
...satisfied with a library that is a shadow of its former self, we proceed, on a tip, to the men's bathroom in Harvard Hall. If you think the men's bathroom could never not be entertaining, think again. With a lone Faulkner quote on the wall--"the past isn't past, it isn't even done"--we are left not only disappointed, but with no excuse to be in the men's bathroom. The women's bathroom, however, offers ample consolation, for on the stalls are a cornucopia of persuasive prose. Wars of words rage over race, gender, sexuality...