Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charges that he had conspired to rig state hospital approvals while out of office. Though he was acquitted, tales of extravagant gambling trips and debts paid off with cash-filled suitcases have ^ continued to dog him. But they also spark his campaign for redemption. As the well-scrubbed, silver-haired Cajun traipses across the state like a visiting potentate, he exhorts supporters, "Lache pas la patate! ((Don't drop the potato!)) I made my mistakes, and I benefited by them. I'm running to complete the job I started...
There is a small amount of color in these paintings -- generally strokes of earth green and rubbed patches of raw umber -- but the prevalent hue of the gray-to-silver monochrome seems to change from canvas to canvas, emitting different tints of light. Marden scrapes back and sandpapers the canvas, leaving the ghosts of one layer of paint behind the other; this subtlety (the equivalent of the nuances inside the coats of wax in his earlier work) plays off against the roughness of the lines. Sometimes a whole web of dark line gets canceled, whited out, but roughly -- on those...
...chests are the result of Portia's father's dying instructions as to how his daughter must choose a husband. Each suitor must choose a chest--one is made of gold, one of silver and one of lead. To aid the suitors, each chest has inscribed on it a cryptic clue--the suitor who is able to decipher the clues will win Portia's hand...
...effects of miserable weather aren't all bad--some students were able to find silver linings around the dark clouds lurking above...
...sure, there were some distinctly X-rated moments, especially when it was Hatch's turn to work with the raw material of Anita Hill's allegations. < More than once it seemed as though he was about to summon Long Dong Silver to appear before the Judiciary Committee in person (or worse...