Word: chiaroscuro
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These numbers are photographed in two extreme yet simple forms of lighting: chiaroscuro, in which the line of a cheek, the wrinkle of a sleeve, the keys of a fingered saxophone, appear as if drawn in white ink on black paper; and its opposite, in which the musicians appear in almost featureless silhouette against a staring, blank white background...
...play Rochester as a man of ham, not of heart, wrenches the whole mood of Jane Eyre. But in the opening reels, little Peggy Ann Garner (as the child Jane), brilliantly abetted by Henry Daniell (as a demoniac preacher-schoolmaster), and by some loud-pedaled cinemaginativeness, establishes a nightmarish chiaroscuro of pity and gloom which, if sustained, might have made Jane Eyre a great picture...
...bigger than a 50? piece. On white people the blotches are pink, red or brown; on dark-skinned people they are purple, blue or black. Some blotches itch. After a year or more the dark spots begin to lose their color, and the patient's skin becomes a chiaroscuro of bleached blotches and normal pigmentation. Among Dr. Leon y Blanco's volunteers were three men with syphilis. They all got pinta, proving that the two diseases are not the same...
...science. His very painting was a scientific search-the plants and rocks in the background of the Portrait of Ginevra de' Bend seem to have been executed by a botanist and a geologist. As he began to satisfy himself with technical improvements in such matters as perspective and chiaroscuro, he gradually lost interest in tirt for art's sake...
Searchlights went on, in a mad chiaroscuro. Wrecking crews turned acetylene torches on the cars, to cut away the wreckage, clear the way to those trapped inside...