Word: sunlights
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...sleeps in sunlight, surrounded by many dreams...
...result has proved a tremendous success. The brilliant sunlight of Attica and classical background give such modern works as Matisse's Head of Jeannette an air of repose and permanence. Andre Derain's Girl with Long Hair has gained a depth of dimension it never had in France's Chardin Gallery, and the razor-sharp shadows endow Henry Moore's prowlike Standing Figure with a new monumentality. As for Renoir's Venus Triumphant, with her well-rounded grace she looked ready for installation above it all in the Parthenon itself...
...smoldering ruin. Wisps of smoke still curled from the skeletons of charred buildings. Wrecked cars lay around the streets like swatted beetles. Sidewalks were buried under huge shards of glass and chunks of concrete that had filled the air at the riots' height. The glint of sunlight on thousands of brass cartridge casings gave the eerie look of an abandoned battlefield−which it was. "This is just a quietness," said a Negro minister. "The riot is not over...
...trance when he slipped on her finger a silver ring mounted with a 2,000-year-old iridescent glass piece from the Roman ruins of Caesarea−a gift from Kollek's private collection. An expert later warned her not to wear the priceless ring in the sunlight, which might dull its iridescence, but Kollek smiled: "You go ahead and wear it. It will keep for another 2,000 years...
SCHUBERT TRIO NO. 1 IN B FLAT (Columbia). Never have violin, piano and cello sounded more radiant than when played by the illustrious trio of otherwise solo virtuosos Isaac Stern, Eugene Istomin and Leonard Rose. Schubert's music kindles this continuous glow, for it is filled with sunlight, in contrast to the black Winter Journey of the same period, shortly before the composer's death...