Word: vase
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...that friends had brought him in his illness, there are darker notes--sometimes literally so, in the enveloping blackness of their backgrounds, against which the voluptuous white petals of a peony stand out like the skirts of a dying ballerina. In a late painting of lilac blossoms in a vase, you can feel the thick darkness--the darkness of Goya, whose work Manet adored--closing implacably on the fragile white blooms. This may have been as near to deliberate allegory as Manet, the arch-Realist, would go. Or it may not: one can't be quite sure...
...said that finding academics for professorships is like having empty vases in different rooms of one's house and going to a flower shop to buy the best flowers for each vase...
...more to upgrade a small arrangement with more flowers. But my mixed bouquet of roses, snapdragons and carnations, also hand-delivered, was squished into a tiny little bowl. Upgradable bouquets are a great way to accommodate a range of budgets, but you would think FTD.com would also upgrade the vase. Still, the flowers were reasonably fresh, and it was the only site that let me select a full-size card to accompany the arrangement. Total damage...
...technique is a modernization of the classic optical illustration developed by Edgar Rubin in which viewers see either a vase or two faces depending on how they direct their attention. The viewers perceive one of the two patches as being in the foreground and the other as being in the background by choosing where to direct their attention...
DIANA BROOKS Ex-Sotheby's exec cops plea for price fixing. Can you bring a Ming vase to Sing Sing...