Word: blue
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Byce tipped in a shot from the blue line for apower-play goal 90 seconds into the game andscored short-handed about two minutes later whenhe beat Gagnon on a breakaway...
...there a moral to this event? Only the obvious one: that we owe it to the sanctimonious, inflated racket that the art industry has become. The theft is the blue-collar side of the glittering system whereby art, through the '80s, was promoted into crass totems of excess capital. Sotheby's and Christie's tacitly recognized this last week when, after conferring with the museum board and the FBI, they volunteered the $1 million reward money for the Gardner -- a touching p.r. gesture, like a cigarette company giving money to a cancer ward...
...close to endearing animals like whales and orangutans, but some more specialized projects have been successful as well. There seems to be no trouble, for example, getting volunteers to walk miles of beach all night long in search of egg-laying turtles. For another, less appealing assignment, Blue Magruder, Earthwatch's director of public affairs, somehow found eight paying volunteers for a study of the use of sewage in agriculture in Ohio...
...symbol of the times is blue jeans -- not just blue jeans in good condition but jeans that are frayed, torn, discolored. They don't get that way naturally. No one wants blue jeans that are crisply clean or spanking new. Manufacturers recognize a big market when they see it, and they compete with one another to offer jeans that are made to look as though they've just been discarded by clumsy house painters after ten years of wear. The more faded and seemingly ancient the garment, the higher the cost. Disheveled is in fashion; neatness is obsolete...
...such an endlessly complicated form as this Gothic facade, with all its peaks, hollows, spires, bosses and moldings, be so fully rendered in terms of color and the space that color creates? Monet's control is astounding. With the sun behind it, the facade is a looming cliff of blue shadows; as the light moves onto its face, it becomes a stupendously intricate cellular structure, a vertical reef of stone, its grain and warmth evoked by the texture of the paint, flushed by radiance, in which every last touch of pigment seems operative...