Word: swanning
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...painting, one that took no particular study and needed little development. Compounded of his strengths and weaknesses, the style he settled for was as personal as a signature. Anybody who has seen one Modigliani can recognize a second one at a glance: almost all his painted people have swan necks, seesaw eyes and ski-run noses. Surprisingly enough, he was able to characterize each one sharply within that arbitrary formula. For traditional draftsmanship he substituted clear, smoothly looping lines that divide the canvas into locked swirls of space. Instead of a full palette he used a few colors ranging from...
...line betrays a dreamer's restlessness. Her thick legs press together and her feet lock like hands; her head twists sideways as if to avoid the lute that lies across her. The painting clearly suggests the old Greek theme of Leda, with the lute serving as a dark swan. But Beckmann was not the man to labor his expressionism with handy tags and explanations...
...tears, Mother Nightingale had confided to a friend: "We are ducks who have hatched a wild swan." It was no swan, as Lytton Strachey noted in his famous biographical essay, "it was an eagle." But Strachey-could never fathom Miss Nightingale either, because he himself, a brilliant and heretical writer, put no stock in God or goodness. The best Strachey could do was to guess that Florence Nightingale was in the clutch of a demonic spirit...
Councillor Chester B. Higley said "it is terrible and tyrannical to investigate people for headlines." W. Donnison Swan '17 added "this is the kind of irresponsible legislation that brings discredit to the Cambridge City Council...
...Lynch had investigated properly," Swan continued, "he would have found out that the purpose of the organization is to combat communism...