Word: talled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tall man walked into the packed Science center auditorium purposefully, as if walking down a runway at a fashion show. He wore a thin grey cashmere turtleneck under his bold plaid Armani unstructured jacket. He knew Vogue said that earth tones were in this season. He knew he outdressed his two colleagues, even if they were bigger media names. In his head, he quietly reassured himself, "I own this crowd...They worship me...I invented Libertarianism...
Although he is a representational painter (he cites Edward Hopper as an influence), Howe's work is not photographic. A more expressionistic canvas, "Attic Apartment" shows a tall figure standing in a small room defined by sharply slanted ceilings. Howe refers to Edvard Munch as an influence for this more psychological piece...
EVERYONE LIKED RAYMOND LOUzoum. Children would stop to stare at the marionettes in the window of his optical shop in downtown Algiers. With his fair hair and blue eyes, the tall, garrulous Tunisian Jew was often mistaken for a Frenchman. During 30 years in the city, Louzoum even played the role of a French colonel in an Algerian film on the war of independence. But in a city where foreigners are now targeted for death by Islamic militants, few people were surprised when a young man walked into Louzoum's shop in broad daylight last week and shot him dead...
...home. As we walked to our bikes, lime green-uniformed police officers, on foot and motorcycle, pushed us aside, clearing the way for an entourage. "They're going to bring the prisoners out," Chong-yi said Car after car, motorcycle after motorcycle drove past, us. Finally, a tall, open-bed truck drove past, lined on all four sides by helmeted police, equipped with machine guns. A skinny man, hair shorn to the scalp and clothed in a black smock, stood in the front, right behind the truck cab. He wore a sign printed with four characters, around his neck...
...engineering department's marvel of money preservation is an almost stereotypical professorial type: Tall, white-haired and distinguished, casually dressed and perched in the standard messy office of an academic...