Word: soft
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Chagall, the surrealist, offers no signs of architectural or sculptural space in his color lithographs. His lithographs appear soft on the surface; instead of using a single line to delineate a contour, he uses several smaller strokes. His method of transformation of nature uses the surrealist and soft impression as its primary tool...
DICK GEPHARDT (+1) Could deliver Missouri and add junkyard-dog intensity to Clinton's soft-focus charm. Drawbacks: the eye-brow gap (look closely) and his Japan-bashing protectionism...
Moreover, while the ruble was nearly worthless at home, it was totally without value abroad. No banker or investor wanted to hold an artificial, or "soft," currency. The ruble was an impediment to foreign trade and contributed to the isolation of the U.S.S.R...
Lourdes loves the cold. She relishes "the ritual of scarves and gloves, hats and zip-in coat linings. Its layers protect her." Raped by revolutionaries who afterward carved "crimson hieroglyphics" into her soft belly, she wants "no part of Cuba, no part of its wretched carnival floats creaking with lies, no part of Cuba at all." But her Americanized daughter Pilar, born in Cuba when the revolution was 11 days old, misses her abuela: "Every day Cuba fades a little more inside me, my grandmother fades a little more inside me. And there's only my imagination where our history...
...unlikely pair of friends, photographer Gay Block and children's book writer Malka Drucker, on a three-year journey to photograph and interview 105 rescuers from 10 countries. The often surprising answers are chronicled in their book, Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust (Holmes & Meier; $29.95 soft cover), and in a photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, which runs until April...