Word: sheened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America, the van plummeted. Yellow images welled into its bugsmirched windshield--car chrome rendered gassy, half-tone faces in an air-conditioned pickle, blind voices whimpering in dying voids. Stubbed fingers of headlights scratched across closecropped weeds and into gritty caverns of trucked roar. And through the smoky sheen of translucent film, through the captive atmosphere of this worn, pummeled bag. America swelled in disembodied waves...
...disbelief; his viola voice emerges to play, tease, and finally wound in a fumbled attempt at old-boy friendship. Richardson, ever the literary prig, rejects him: "Let us change the subject. For the last time." He commits his soul to his servants, two North London roughnecks with a sheen of airline-steward manners, and slides willingly into no man's land, "which never changes, which never grows older, but which remains forever, icy and silent...
...living room to watch ABC's special, The Missiles of October, when it was aired last week. The party was subdued; the handful of friends and followers of the fallen Kennedy brothers were clearly moved by the resemblances to Jack and Bobby of Actors William Devane and Martin Sheen. A dramatization of events presented with the doggedness of a documentary, Missiles won some praise from Historian Schlesinger: "It was a simplification, not falsification, of events." But former Secretary of State Dean Rusk had objections. When Nikita Khrushchev, who was played by Howard da Silva, recalled the Soviet ships, Rusk...
Fair Harvard needs a particolored sheen...
...taken out of context, isolated and framed against white backgrounds, lose their identity as functional objects and become complements to the two-dimensional prints of Josef Albers. The interweaving of threads, the alternation of horizontals and verticals, the contrast between the soft haze of nubbly fibers and the smooth sheen of tightly woven threads become pure formal design. One notices, as one would probably never think to do when looking at a dress or chair cover, the range of colors, weights, twists of threads natural and man-made that have been deliberately arranged to create an almost infinite variety...