Word: skies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audience gaped in bewilderment at Frederick Kiesler's setting. The kiosk resembled the turret of a battleship topped by an old-fashioned lampshade. To suggest the garden a lighting arrangement projected on the backdrop a horizontal stem and four big embryonic leaves. A moon was suspended in the sky like a bruised alligator pear...
...star shines in the sky, near to Vega, the chief component of the Lyre. It is easily seen just after sunset, sinking in the west; but it shares with the Big and Little Dippers the peculiarity of never setting in latitudes north of plus 45 degrees...
Turkey was rocked by three earthquakes, worst since 1874. The towers of Istanbul tottered against the sky. Townsfolk rushed jabbering through the streets, slept in the open despite a pouring rain...
...bright colors he likes the reds best. Vermilion was therefore the predominant color in the most vivid art exhibition of the season which opened last week at New York's Marie Harriman Gallery. On view were a succession of carefully drawn studies that might be landscapes, trees, sky, the ends of old houses and narrow streets, but were actually elaborately conceived studies in pure color, psychologically akin to the huge abstractions of Pablo Picasso...
...dazzling orchestrations. But it was the late Sergei Diaghilev who established the young composer throughout the world. Diaghilev and his choreographer, Fokine, heard the swirling Fireworks, which Stravinsky wrote as a wedding present for Rimsky's daughter. Fokine told Diaghilev that it made him see flames in the sky. For a shrewd entrepreneur like Diaghilev that was sufficient. In 1910 Stravinsky was commissioned to write The Firebird...