Word: tulips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...area of Sultan's work that seems unequivocally successful is his drawings -- big, densely worked silhouettes of tulips and lemons, with so much charcoal ground into the paper over repeated layers of fixative that its blackness is velvety and palpable, with something of the richness of Jasper Johns' encaustic or Richard Serra's paintstick drawings. Sultan is highly sensitive to the play of black and white. In drawings like Black Tulip May 23, 1983, he gives his shapes an admirable, embodied decisiveness: you sense that they have all been the subject of hard aesthetic argument. The tulip stems swoon like...
Sporting baseball caps emblazoned with "TheYear of the Quad," students and tutors plantedmore than 200 tulip and daffodil bulbs around theQuad to commemorate the party. "We got 400 bulbsbut we didn't want to give them all out becausewe'll have another planting in the spring when theother area is done," Cabot House Master Myra M.Mayman said...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--The Harvard men's hockey team's walk through the ECAC tulip patch was interrupted briefly last night...
...stands, the Crimson has a difficult schedule ahead of it. Greater pests than the Bruins lurk somewhere in the Crimson's tulip patch...
...16th century, Spanish conquistadors may have unknowingly used viruses in a primitive form of germ warfare; they apparently supplied their intended victims, the Aztecs and the Incas, with blankets taken from houses with smallpox in Europe. Viruses helped cause a fiscal crisis in 17th century Holland, where infections of tulip bulbs produced a new variety of the flower with spectacular, rippling patterns of color. The government was unable to control the resulting speculation, which threatened the economy before tulipomania, as it became known, died down...