Word: veil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peering into the night skies, astronomers find their view obscured by the ever-present veil of the earth's atmosphere. Swirling air currents blur the images of stars and planets. Scattered light and auroras in the atmosphere blot out faint stars. The thick blanket of air soaks up ultraviolet light and other radiation given off by distant stars, thus depriving scientists of valuable clues about the nature of the universe around them. Last week U.S. astronomers dramatically thrust their telescopes through the atmospheric veil and began to see the sky in a new light...
Fleeting Gifts. In dozens of airy canvases, Watteau portrayed the costumed promenades and the subtle indiscretions, the muted serenades and lush elegance of invisibly manicured garden estates. Collectors snapped his pictures up. Yet no matter what he showed, Watteau's view remained strangely aloof. A subtle veil of distance shrouds all his pictures, making them seem as much fantasy as reality. Unlike the nude nymphs of Boucher, Lancret and Fragonard, who with varying degrees of success were to echo his style, Watteau's aristocratic Co-lombines and shepherdesses remained fully clothed...
Pink Satin and a Red Veil. In Istanbul during the next two days, De Gaulle found the pomp and circumstance he most enjoys. Attending a reception in the vast, marble-columned hall of the 19th century Dolmabahce Palace, De Gaulle sat with Premier Süleyman Demirel on pink satin cushions atop a gold divan. Beneath a seven-ton chandelier, long tables were weighted with 30 different kinds of food and 35 desserts prepared by 70 chefs...
...Gaulle also cruised aboard the 6,400-ton presidential yacht, whose opulence included deep Turkish carpeting. De Gaulle was attended by a nubile Turkish blonde clad in a red veil, blue tunic and diaphanous harem pants. Local wags had suggested that De Gaulle had an even chance of sighting a Soviet warship en route to join the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean. Though nothing was said about the impressive Russian naval buildup, De Gaulle had ordered a fat file on the Soviet fleet a week before the trip...
...many on a par with Kenneth Noland and the late Morris Louis. While the canvases of both Louis and Noland are generally filled with several areas of color that rest flatly on the canvas, Olitski has mastered the art of spraying on paint to create a single, subtly shaded veil that conveys an illusion of depth. It is a painstaking process; on a single painting he may use as many as ten different spray guns, apply dozens of different coats. When completed, the painting gives a viewer the sensation of gazing into a shimmering, bottomless sea. To dramatize the effect...