Word: coloring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Runaway prices remain Martínez de Hoz's most pressing problem. Rents in Buenos Aires range from $1,500 to $6,000 for modern three-bedroom apartments. A new Brazilian-made Volkswagen fetches $16,000, and a Japanese color television set costs at least...
Even with the sharks, the savages and the suntanned insatiable teenagers, Blue Lagoon (which should be called Green Lagoon since that it the color of the water there) drags...
...Carter had on a dark blue suit and cordovan shoes. No secret mission was planned, other than a jog in the Quirinale Gardens, for which Carter used sneakers. Cordovan with blue is just a part of Carter, a man still vaguely indifferent to, or perhaps even contemptuous of, the color codes of Old World diplomacy, an encrusted ritual built of the minutiae of centuries...
...testimony to the improvements in Tiffany's taste and technique as he grew in age and experience. The windows begin with panels that look like little more than paintings (not very good ones, mostly of the Burne-Jones persuasion) and go on to the increasingly abstract and incandescent color of Tiffany's later works, such as Pumpkin and Beets, 1900-05, as abstractly designed as any action painter might wish. Also on display is a solid representation of Tiffany's famed lamps and lampshades (one recently brought $360,000 at auction...
...with the state of the art, which then chiefly consisted of fusing the drawings into the glass, and began looking for improvements. In his experiments, he records: "I perceived that the glass used for claret bottles and preserve jars was richer, finer and had a more beauttiful quality in color than any glass I could buy." The secret, he concluded, was that this cheaper glass "contained the oxides of iron and other impurities which are left in the sand when melted." It took him almost 30 years of experimentation before he found methods that produced what he wanted, including...