Word: shadowings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shadows. In the many years that followed, always operating in semi-shadow while the world's oil bubbled up to power a whole new mechanical age, Calouste Gulbenkian polished the traits bequeathed him by his shrewd Armenian ancestors. He came to deal on equal terms with most of the great sovereign governments of the West, the mightiest autocratic potentates of the East and great burgeoning billion-dollar corporations. Gulbenkian himself seldom dirtied his hands with the actual pumping and selling of the oil. He was an operator, an adept at what the Armenians call bazarlik, a dim figure...
...term he has been there, the 15 girls in his class have gradually become accustomed to him. Before each lecture, he carefully reviews his notes, then launches into a lighthearted dissertation on anything from "Noah's Ark" (because it happens to be raining outside) to "Eye Shadow" (i.e., the cosmetics of ancient Egypt). Recently, he recommended that his students go to see the movie, The Egyptian, as "an illuminating pictorial explanation of the period we are discussing." Thereupon, he swung around to the blackboard, jotted down the time of every showing...
...tourists but the Mona Lisa who smiles. Van Gogh had more passion, and for a time his popularity surpassed even Renoir's, but Van Gogh's best pictures are explosive compounds of joy and sorrow, more calculated to disturb than to please. Never a shadow of sorrow crosses Renoir's canvases; he painted simple, earthly pleasures in simple, earthy terms. "A painter who has the feel for breasts and buttocks," he once declared, "is saved...
...SHADOW OR SUBSTANCE...
...York Herald Tribune's COLUMNIST ROSCOE DRUMMOND: DEAR Mr. President: Don't give us what we want-if you have the merest, lingering, flickering doubt that the Soviets are offering more the shadow than the substance of a safer world...