Word: sparse
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The formative early influence on him was the 1907 Cezanne retrospective in Paris. Cezanne's slow chewing at the motif, his persistence, his anxiety, his search for a sculptural grandeur in bodies and landscape (faceted on the surface, dense as limestone below) became, for Braque, a moral absolute. Cezanne's...
Howard recounts the period much as the pragmatic Wrights must have seen it. New applications of materials and industrial technology were increasing rapidly. It was not hard to imagine a bicycle chain driving a propeller or an arrangement of spars and spoke wire strengthening a fragile open structure. From their...
Already the Boeing Co. is shaping the spars and wing ribs in its Everett, Wash., plant for a new Air Force One, a 747-200B that will course the heavens with more range, communication, self-sufficiency and practical elegance than anything else in the sky. The contract let last...
The mood is still cheerful the next morning, when she sits down for an interview in the family quarters of the White House. The ten pounds she lost between the spring of 1981, when Reagan was shot, and the summer of 1982, when her father's lengthy illness ended...
Murphy's palette holds softer shades too. One character, known as Solomon, is every happy-sad old man you ever edged away from on the bus; he spars gingerly with an old pal, croaks a song or two and returns without warning to the attic of reverie. Look behind...