Word: archaically
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...Archaic? Its greatest heroes are locked in the mythic past, an epoch located roughly between the Jurassic era and World...
...issue of large-scale, "decorative" figure compositions. Matisse's fauve years, with their hot drumfire of broken, dissonant color, were behind him. Now he was engaged in calming his art, endowing it with a magisterial breadth of form and outline, a simplicity of hue and an archaic, pre-classical subject matter. His Nymph and Satyr, 1909, belongs much more to the world of Hesiod than to the Renaissance vision of antiquity. Three colors: pink for the skin, blue for the strip of lake and green for the fields and hills. Two figures: the nymph tripped and falling, the satyr...
...room now is flat, with an archaic dusty flatness as if a civilization had caved in and fallen, here. The shadows in the corners are only undusted momentoes of her personal failings; her defeated cities. She would not peer into them. They were without surprise, and without clues to the mystery of the magical chanting...
Upstairs, thick red carpets still covered the corridors, and the highceilinged rooms had all the old British furniture and fixtures, including the archaic bathtubs with U-shaped bottoms that make it difficult to stand up and take a shower. As before, the Big Ben clock on the Customs House a few blocks away sounded the hour, though Red Guards had changed the chimes to play The East Is Red, China's national anthem...
...central government. Another factor is the advance of modern communications, which has brought the threat of cultural homogenization much closer to many once isolated peoples. The result is that such communities have renewed their insistence on maintaining their own languages, their own traditions and-all too often-their own archaic rivalries...