Word: commonest
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...fullness. Perhaps it is the concentration of such images, with their shifts of scale and razor-sharp exactitude, that leads some viewers to compare them to Surrealism. But surrealist imagery is, almost by definition, fantastic, whereas O'Keeffe's paintings insist that they are not dreams: the commonest object unfolds itself, seen awake in full sunlight. She is not a metaphorical artist (everything is what it is, and stands for nothing else), but her work is full of correspondences. There is not a nude in the show, not even a figure; yet her images are a rich...
...turn of the century, some five dozen species nested here, including 16 varieties of warblers and vireos. Except for the unsprayed area around Fresh Pond Reservoir, none of these warblers and vireos regularly nest here now. Only half a dozen native species next here in any numbers today. The commonest birds-the starlings, English sparrows, and pigeons-were all imported from Europe during the nineteenth century. Insecticides may account for some of this lack of variety...