Word: transom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alcove bed open backward into stages of increasing light. The window casts a bright lozenge of sun on the worn tiles of the floor beyond. The light slants, giving De Hooch an opportunity to complicate his verticals and horizontals with a diagonal bar of shadow cast by the window transom on the half-open shutter. Some surfaces receive the light directly, others obliquely, thus enabling him to render subtle variations, gleams and sparkles of light on edges and irregularities...
...sure, there will be plenty of action among the big guys in the near future. Too much money is still pouring in over the transom. And with Intel preannouncing better revenues last week, the personal-computer sector, dominated by S&P companies, is turning...