Word: sienna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...front of the glassy-floored store, the walls are loaded from top to bottom with tinted makeups, going by such names as Midnight Blush, Ginger Interlude, and seduction Night Sienna. The Timex and Bulova displays are cruelly juxtaposed on another counter, just across, to remind you that you are old, or will be soon, and will be in want of makeup. Back at the makeup counter, you shrink under the sullen gaze of the desperately nubile females trapped in their placards. There are piles of solemn light green pamphlets like the AWAKE pamphlets the Jehovah Witnesses push on passersbys...
...California seventh grader, that "it makes much more sense than going in and talking to a wall." Theologically, the old liturgy "evolved into a rite of fear and guilt, emphasizing sin more than God's love and mercy," says Father John Tivenan of St. Catherine of Sienna Church in St. Albans, N.Y. The new rite is "a celebration rather than an unearthing of shame...
Donoratico is a village on the Mediterranean about 140 miles north of Rome. Inland lies the delectable countryside of Tuscany, with its crumbling towers and its long avenues of shady cypresses leading to sienna-brown farmhouses. Near Donoratico is a vacation village run by the Club Mediterranee, the social and commercial phenomenon that has established 47 such villages in Europe and elsewhere. Special trains from Paris and Brussels and luggage-laden cars from a dozen countries arrive each Sunday, disgorging 250 middle-class families and turning the village's 60 acres of pine woods and two miles of beach...
...Adolph Gottlieb. Avery and friends sketched frequently at each other's homes. Seated Blonde resulted from one such session in 1946, when the model turned out to be a strapping 6-ft. beauty named Stella, daughter of that week's host. Avery combined pink with burnt sienna, magenta and crimson, with all the jangling dissonance of half a dozen crashing cymbals. It is this bravado with color that has often led him to be viewed as a kind of American Matisse...