Word: watered
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...subject is not without its ironies. The Belle Epoque also saw the high- water mark of Japanese influence on French painting and decorative arts. The Western taste for lacquer, fans, screens and wood-block prints that began soon after Commodore Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay in 1853 had become a mania in Paris by the 1890s. Japanism was all the rage. "I envy the Japanese the extreme clearness which everything has in their work . . . They do a figure in a few sure strokes as if it were as simple as buttoning your waistcoat." It is Vincent van Gogh writing from...
...began in 1876 mainly as a "scientific" discipline. But before long the bizarre techniques of the mysterious Occident developed their own momentum for Japanese artists, and particularly the Western way of depicting forms by smearing a kind of sticky, slow-drying mud on cloth, rather than using ink and water on silk as Chinese and Japanese masters had done for millenniums. When the Tokyo School of Fine Arts opened in 1887,its American co-founder, the "Boston bonze" Ernest Fenollosa, insisted that it teach only traditional Japanese techniques. But by 1896 most of its students were petitioning to learn...
Gaza's main shopping street, Omar al-Muktar, was streaked with soot from burned tires, soaked with water from broken mains, and strewn with stones, chunks of concrete, pieces of metal and smoldering rubber. Barricades stood everywhere, built of tree branches, junked cars, overturned garbage dumpsters and rusting oil barrels. As fast as Israeli troops forced passing pedestrians to dismantle them, they were rebuilt by the roving shabab -- the young men who are the main force behind the uprising...
...Palestinians' self- esteem. But life under Israeli rule has had its compensations. Israel has made major improvements in living standards within the territories -- particularly in Gaza, which in 1967 was one of the most underdeveloped swatches of land in the world. Today half of Gaza's residents have running water, compared with 14% two decades ago. Nearly 80% own refrigerators and television sets, up from 3%. In the West Bank more than four-fifths of the homes have electricity, in contrast to one-quarter 20 years ago. Per capita income rose in the West Bank from...
...Seawolf's high-tensile steel hull will withstand pressures of 100,000 lbs. per sq. in., permitting the sub to dive to depths between layers of water at different temperatures where it can hide from enemy sonar. When it comes time to surface, not even the polar ice cap will be able to keep the Seawolf down. The low, streamlined sail -- conning tower to landlubbers -- will be hardened to absorb the shock of breaking through the ice. Retractable bow planes will permit the Seawolf to navigate under the Arctic, the huge (5.4 million sq. mi.) new battleground of underwater...