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...orange beard provides a perfect Nabi foil in the Octagonal Self-Portrait that opens the show, paired with shocking yellow hair to frame his half-shadowed face. The small Elegant Woman is a masterful bit of minimalism - a column of black skirt, a blob of pink blouse and a swish of black hat with carnation-red sprigs against a brilliant yellow and orange doorway. But Vuillard was a Nabi colorist more out of friendship than conviction, and even the dramatic Grandmother Michaud in Silhouette, with its imposing seated figure silhouetted against a carmine table and a molten-gold wall, points...
...Kashmiris themselves, violence has divided and scattered what was once a close-knit Himalayan community. In their giddier moments, Muslim Kashmiris dreamed that a magic wand would, with one swish, eliminate both India and Pakistan from their lives, permitting them to create an independent state. Hindu Kashmiris, meanwhile, driven from the Muslim-majority valley by terrorism, wished for a Hindu homeland. However, though Kashmiris might be unfortunate, or romantic, they are not fools. They now realize that independence will not suddenly become an option today. Instead, they, along with the Indians and Pakistanis, should seek to effectively end the partition...
After catching the pass from junior forward Jason Grochowalski, Turner set his feet and fired. A second and a swish later, Turner threw his arms out and basked in the cheers from the Terrier faithful. His smile said it all—Turner was back and he knew...
...underneath a print rented from the Fogg featuring a voluptuous brunette embracing a Coca-Cola bottle. Evans mixes drinks in varying hues of pink and red for the girls. Someone breaks out the Bailey’s. Simmons tells Von Tobel’s friend from home to gently swish it around in her glass, a technique she learned from an ad. “You know, where all the sophisticated people are swirling their Bailey’s,” she says. “You’ve never seen it?” There?...
...slow swish of Shakespeare Christmas’ broom is the only sound in Paine Concert Hall early in the morning...